On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eug...@sazhin.us> wrote:
>> >> Wheel is a package format. Packages are for transmitting and installing >> bits. If you want to make some kind of self-unpacking executable please do >> it with something built for it. makeself is an excellent choice for these. >> > > I didn’t say anything about self-unpacking executable. Egg already knows to > do what is needed, so i was correct in expecting the wheel to do the same. > Plus the notion of packages for transmitting and installing should not > exclude the running and importing. Otherwise it is useless, at least for my > purposes. As discussed before - jar does that just fine and it is a package > format. > > Funny thing - wheel allows to do the same! Why would i want to use anything > else then??? Because Python is not Java and Wheels are not Jars. You’ll find very few packages actually support being run from a zipped file and the failure modes are not always obvious. > > Thanks, > Eugene > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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