On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > 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.
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