Jan. 29, 2014
2:10 p.m.
On 29 January 2014 12:58, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
You can campaign to deprecate that feature *if* we ever want to make a change to the wheel format that is incompatible with it.
Note that virtualenv uses the ability to run wheels from sys.path. I don't believe that virtualenv should be a "special exception" here, nor do I want it to rely on accidents of the implementation. So from my POV, pypa is already shipping code that relies on this behaviour being by design. Paul