On 25 March 2013 22:46, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I imagine that pip will retain some form of the current "pip wheel" >> capability that covers this requirement, but maybe as the overall >> picture of the new design gets clarified, this role should be >> captured. > > Strictly speaking I would have thought "pip wheel" was a builder function > which > is only in pip as a transitional step, to get wheels more exposure. Is that an > incorrect assumption on my part?
If some other tool provides the same functionality, I can see the possibility that pip will drop it (assuming that pip takes the route of becoming a "pure installer"). But I can't imagine pip dropping that functionality *until* some other tool is available which does the equivalent. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
