On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:43 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> wrote:
> 16.08.2016, 19:37, Daniel Holth kirjoitti: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:06 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 16, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Wheel should be updated to support the egg use case before egg is >> removed. IIUC this would mostly mean officially supporting 'unzipped wheel' >> as a thing you can add to PYTHONPATH, possibly with some additional >> restrictions for the specific wheel. We could go a little further and >> officially support zipped wheels "if zip safe". We could implement >> wheel2egg to complement egg2wheel? >> >> >> >> I don’t think Wheel should officially supported unzip wheels as a thing >> you can add to PYTHONPATH nor do I think we should officially support >> zipped wheels being added to PYTHONPATH. Neither of those things are going >> to work universally and setuptools has gross heuristics to try and figure >> out when they will and won’t work (which regularly break or report >> inaccurately). Wheel is improved by remaining focused on being a format for >> distributing and installed via an installer, not one that tries to do all >> of the things like Egg did. >> > > So this is how I envision "installing a wheel to its own directory". > > 1. Unzip the wheel into its own directory. > 2. If there are any nested *.data/purelib, platlib, make sure they are > also unzipped into the root of the unzipped wheel instead of their archive > paths. > 3. If there are scripts and you want them, install those too. > > If 2 and 3 don't apply to you, you are done almost before you've started. > What's missing? > > How does one go about installing console_scripts this way? > No difference. Read entry_points.txt and generate script wrappers for all of the listed console_scripts. In buildout's case it adds all of the dependencies to sys.path in the generated console_script wrapper.
_______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
