Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > In wheel's case the idea was to have pip verify that the optional > dependency is new enough to work. The part inside pip could be changed > to try: import wheel; check(wheel.__version__). IIRC the pip process > itself does not directly use anything inside wheel and does not need > to "import wheel".
I see what you're saying, but I was commenting about checks for setuptools and pip. There's no analogous check for wheel, since as you say, pip doesn't use wheel directly. > However "setup.py bdist_wheel ...", run by pip in a subprocess, will > not work unless setuptools can find wheel's plugin declaration. That > won't work unless wheel's *.dist-info/entry_points.txt on sys.path. Yes, I see. Perhaps it's a shame it was implemented that way, if it means it's harder or not possible to run pip from a .zip :-( Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
