On Jan 30, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 30/1/14, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also end user. >> If, as a user, I want to use inplace builds and PYTHONPATH >> instead of virtualenvs for whatever reason, that should be >> supported. Setuptools inserting stuff to sys.path that come >> before PYTHONPATH entries is quite annoying. > > If tool developers want to offer end users the option to control how they work > with sys.path, that's up to them. For example, once the details are worked > out, > the distil tool will probably get a --mountable option for the package > command, > which will write metadata into the built wheel indicating whether the wheel is > addable to sys.path or not (based on the builder's knowledge of the wheel's > contents). Distlib, when asked to mount a wheel (add it to sys.path) will > check > the mountability metadata and honour the wheel publisher's intent. > For everyone following along, the PEP has been updated. http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/26983acc9c11 If anyone has comments on the next text you can find it at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#is-it-possible-to-import-python-code-directly-from-a-wheel-file I hope we can discuss further changes as a group before they are pushed live. --Noah
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