> On May 27, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Alex Grönholm <[email protected]> wrote: > > This reminds me of something I wanted to ask – how come the "virtualenv" tool > installs wheel but the built-in "venv" tool does not? The latter is the > currently recommended method of creating a virtualenv, isn't it? >
virtualenv, by nature of not being in the standard library, can be a bit more liberal. Once pyproject.toml support is in pip and we can automatically install wheel for wheel caching as part of the build process, I intend to remove both setuptools and wheel from virtualenv (and venv). — Donald Stufft _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
