[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

Donald Stufft added the comment: > * the current install time bundling of setuptools in `ensurepip` is likely to > be replaced by `pip` dynamically installing both `setuptools` & `wheel` when > asked to build from a source archive when no other build system has been >

[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

Nick Coghlan added the comment: As a shorter version of the above: * the current install time bundling of setuptools in `ensurepip` is likely to be replaced by `pip` dynamically installing both `setuptools` & `wheel` when asked to build from a source archive when no other

[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Of the listed benefits, I think the most interesting one is the fact it would enable pip's wheel cache by default for all installations, rather than relying on projects publishing pre-built wheel files to PyPI. However, actually doing this

[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

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[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

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[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

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[issue31634] Consider installing wheel in ensurepip by default

New submission from Segev Finer : wheel is quite prevalent nowadays. ensurepip even uses wheels of pip & setuptools itself. Installing wheel by default will bestow the following benefits: 1. pip's wheel cache will be enabled by default. 2. Users will be able to run