On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:10 AM, 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. > > Paul Here’s Paul explicitly mentioning that Wheels being used with zip import is an incidental benefit and not a core feature. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020379.html ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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