On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >> 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 > > I designed it very intentionally to be compatible with zip import. > Otherwise wheels would probably not even be zip files (like pypm > packages which are tar) and would achieve greater compression. > > It may be useful to understand that wheel has *political features* or > if you prefer *setting the defaults based on what we have learned from > eggs*. I don't recommend that they be zip-imported generally but if > you are a consenting adult who understands the caveats you may do so.
Then why did you tell someone on this very list a few hours ago that Wheels were not really designed to be zip imported. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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