Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Wheel carefully preserves the meaningless purelib - platlib distinction even > though they are the same path. If you have a mixed archive you should use > platlib. > > It is legal but inadvisable to have both! The other one would go into > .data/platlib or .data/purelib > There's a further issue, as relates to .dist-info. If a wheel were to incorporate dependencies, then installing a wheel would lead to different results from e.g. installing from source, unless the wheel contained a .dist-info for all the distributions in the wheel. The spec makes no mention of multiple .dist-info files - were these ever intended to be there? I had assumed not. If multiple dists in a wheel are to be entertained, it would make more sense to *always* have .data/purelib and .data/platlib (I know they are generally always the same, but whatever :-). Sorry I never brought this up earlier - I just assumed that wheels were for one distribution, only in a binary format. They're still a win if that's the case, it's just that playing with the wheeler.py script got me thinking about dependencies... Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
