Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > Vinay's distlib has taken the wheel spec at its word, runs an > unmodified "install" command with all the various paths set to > wheel-compatible distname-1.0.data/scripts etc., and converts the > .egg-info directory to .dist-info the same as bdist_wheel's final > step.
Right, except there's no conversion of .egg-info to .dist-info in distlib itself. That's done by the separate wheeler.py demonstration script, which uses vanilla pip to install to a holding location, converts the .egg-info to .dist-info and then builds the wheel from that. At installation time, the wheel's .dist-info contents are moved to the installation site's site-packages, except for WHEEL, which is omitted, and RECORD which is recreated. > All wheel does is it takes a basic assumption of distutils2 (avoid > running setup.py), rearranges it slightly (avoid running setup.py at > install time) and magically people seem to like it. I wanted lxml to > compile faster and wound up with a distutils escape hatch. Now I think A happy accident, then! > that avoiding running *distutils* at install time is much more > important than avoiding setup.py. > > It's just the 1.0 release. There's no hurry to write the document > entitled "PEP 376 is now the/a standard *interchange* format for > [snip] > third-party products to do everything else" are higher up on the Grand > Python Packaging Plan or GP3 (tm) to-do list. I suppose you're right, but I want to make as much progress as I can while I still have the time I can spend on this, and while the grey cells haven't succumbed to packaging fatigue ... :-) Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
