Nick Coghlan wrote:
Otherwise we'd have to define a whole new format for something that
can be adequately handled by a wheel that meets certain restrictions,
and that would be pointless (we already have too many formats, and we
wanted the wheel format to offer a strict superset of the egg format's
capabilities).

Would it help if zipimportable wheels were given a
different extension? The format could be exactly the
same (except perhaps for a flag in the metadata) but
users would be able to immediately tell whether a
particular wheel was zipimportable without having to
run a tool.

We would need a suitably catchy name for them too.
Zippy wheels? Fast wheels? Hotwheels?

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Greg
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