On 30 Jan 2014 07:50, "Greg Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
1.1 will likely have a flag in WHEEL (off by default), and distlib.mount will then refuse to add wheels that don't have it set (including 1.0 wheels) to sys.path. Cheers, Nick. > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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