On 29 January 2014 23:10, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 January 2014 12:58, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You can campaign to deprecate that feature *if* we ever want to make a >> change to the wheel format that is incompatible with it. > > Note that virtualenv uses the ability to run wheels from sys.path. I > don't believe that virtualenv should be a "special exception" here, > nor do I want it to rely on accidents of the implementation. > > So from my POV, pypa is already shipping code that relies on this > behaviour being by design.
Not just PyPA - this feature is at the heart of how the ensurepip module in the standard library works. This approach is explicitly documented in PEP 453: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#implementation-strategy Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig