[Distutils] Wheel (pep 427) reference implementation

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Holth
A friendly reminder that wheel is implemented, useful and working as long as you are using distribute 0.6.28 or better. Qwcode's pip fork supports it. When you install a wheel you get .dist-info and can easily have no .egg-info in your virtualenv. Would anyone care to lend a hand with the Sphinx

Re: [Distutils] Wheel PEP

2012-09-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: Initial wheel PEP text up in approximate PEP format at https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/5ffb06c1de6 Is it OK to push this to python.org/peps? Yes, much better to have that as an initial draft rather than

Re: [Distutils] Wheel PEP

2012-09-23 Thread Daniel Holth
It's also not quite true that the contents of a wheel aren't importable - since they're still just a zipfile, they can still be added to an import path in the same manner as egg files. It's just not *recommended* to use them that way, as the format is designed primarily for use in

[Distutils] Wheel PEP

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel Holth
Initial wheel PEP text up in approximate PEP format at https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/5ffb06c1de6 Is it OK to push this to python.org/peps? Thanks, Daniel Holth ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org