On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
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
Here’s Paul explicitly mentioning that Wheels being used with zip import is an incidental benefit and not a core feature. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020379.html ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA