On 30 Jan 2014 07:50, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Otherwise we'd have to define a whole new format for something that can be adequately handled by a wheel that meets certain restrictions, and that would be pointless (we already have too many formats, and we wanted the wheel format to offer a strict superset of the egg format's capabilities).
Would it help if zipimportable wheels were given a different extension? The format could be exactly the same (except perhaps for a flag in the metadata) but users would be able to immediately tell whether a particular wheel was zipimportable without having to run a tool.
We would need a suitably catchy name for them too. Zippy wheels? Fast wheels? Hotwheels?
1.1 will likely have a flag in WHEEL (off by default), and distlib.mount will then refuse to add wheels that don't have it set (including 1.0 wheels) to sys.path. Cheers, Nick.
-- Greg
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