[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package.

Change by Éric Araujo : -- stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package.

Change by TestUserEWDurbin : -- status: pending -> open title: User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package -> User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package. ___ Python tracker

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package

Éric Araujo added the comment: Will close soon unless someone disagrees. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package

Éric Araujo added the comment: The devs probably choose to use distutils.Command as base class for maximum compatibility, but I suspect 99.99% of users use the setuptools integration (entry points

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package

Ernest W. Durbin III added the comment: bdist_wheel is implemented as a distutils.core.Command, see https://github.com/pypa/wheel/blob/3a87ecebaba765475392ae2cdfa2a51cb78360e0/wheel/bdist_wheel.py I was unable to find a good place to transparently hook in and catch the

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package

Éric Araujo added the comment: I don’t know that bdist_wheel integrates with pure distutils without setuptools. I think this PR should target setuptools (it will also make it propagate to users faster and regardless of Python version). --

[issue32295] User friendly message when invoking bdist_wheel sans wheel package

New submission from Ernest W. Durbin III : Wheels are a well-known part of the Python packaging ecosystem at this point! Many tutorials, gists, and other tools suggest to build wheels using setuptools and distutils, but may not remind users to install the wheel package. In