On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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 :-(
I'm suggesting it might be a bug in pkg_resources, or it might be something pkg_resources can already do, if pip.zip is added to PYTHONPATH while executing setup.py in a subprocess. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
