On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 August 2016 at 22:31, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Wheels are a pretty simple and straightforward format. They've got some >> metadata, and then the are a set of directories with labels attached: "this >> directory needs to go on sys.path", "this directory has scripts that should >> have shebang fixups applied and then go on $PATH", etc. (The spec is not >> long: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/) >> >> My first guess at how buildout could handle wheels elegantly would be: >> >> - we have one piece of code that abstracts the operation of "please give me >> a wheel for package X version Y that works on this system". > > This can be abstracted at the moment as "pip wheel <requirement>". > That will deliver a wheel to the current directory which is exactly > what is described above.
Or possibly "pip wheel --no-deps <requirement>" or something similar. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig