-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/2014 06:55 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> If you are going to document this, and it is not going to be > explicitly supported by the spec (it isn't), the _only_ logical thing > is to document that this is undefined behavior and while it works now, > people should not depend on it. Under no circumstance should we > document this as "well it works right now" without guidance about the > fact that it isn't part of the spec and is _not_ a candidate for > future design decisions. If someone would like to propose amending the > spec that can happen separately, but as it stands right now this is > nothing but convenient, undefined behavior. Nick's point in this thread is that zip-importability is a *necessary corrolary* (not an implementation detaiL) of the "no special installers" design choice. - - Given that there is a non-empty set of wheels which can be unpacked to a filesystem-directory tree in a directory on sys.path, and that some of those wheels are already known not to otherwise break zip- importability, it is a logical necessity that such wheels can be put onto sys.path without unpacking. We already have existence proof for this in software being released *by the folks who made these specs*. Noting is as such is the *point* of Nick's change. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLp2hIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6VGACgjnYRbgVSs8ceTXNeWTH0zCls yHwAn0/nyDUMRjNl7ARi0bVtkBOeO1nJ =2pvt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
