> 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



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