Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
I *would* like to see the various technical issues and implications in the API documentation, though. The implications and limitations, and in particular the manual cache management requirements, need to be made explicit.
I've updated the documentation, see http://distlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference.html The docs on distlib.util.get_cache_base have the info on the cache and cleanup thereof, including handling of no-home-directory, security implications, open files in Windows etc. I've also updated the distlib.resources.Cache documentation to link to get_cache_base. I've added is_mountable and is_compatible methods to Wheel, and added/ updated the docs for them and the mount() method accordingly, and referenced get_cache_base as the place where extensions are extracted to. More detailed suggestions for improvements are welcome. Regards, Vinay Sajip