[Distutils] the 'wheel' binary package format

[Daniel Holth]

> Actually, I've hit a number of other issues when I try Python 2,
> largely related to (a) the fact that I'm on Windows, so you can't
> install pip with itself (can't overwrite the exe), and (b) I don't
> have a workable git (so I had to download the patched pip manually)
> and (c) it's a develop build, so I can't delete the patched pip once
> it's installed (this is mainly because I don't have any familiarity
> with develop installs, so I don't know how to change the command to
> get a "normal" install - the obvious approach of changing "develop" to
> "install" didn't work...). Maybe the Python 3 problem wasn't python 3
> as such.

It is always a pain to use an installer to replace itself. Sorry.

> I'll try to get a workable version on Windows when I have some time.
> (But I'd still like to know if it's intended to work on Python 3 - if
> not, I probably won't bother for now).

Double oops. I have pushed bdist_wheel to my cpython fork, but that
doesn't take care of the installer. I am definitely interested in
porting the distribute version over to Python 3. I just haven't gotten
to it.