On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 January 2014 21:50, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >> As a follow up, even if this becomes something we document and actually >> support, then it should be done in the next version of Wheel when people >> have the chance to discuss it. It should not be added ex post facto by >> a committer to the PEP repo just because they want Wheel to have it. > > It was discussed during the approval process for the wheel format, I > approved it on the basis that wheels provided a superset of the > functionality of eggs. I merely missed the fact it wasn't properly > recorded in the PEP (which is now rectified). > > You can campaign to deprecate that feature *if* we ever want to make a > change to the wheel format that is incompatible with it. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia Can you point to this discussion? Because I cannot find it. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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