[Distutils] What does it mean for Python to "bundle pip"?

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 23:22:42 CEST 2013


On 21 August 2013 22:13, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wheel is a suitable replacement for bdist_wininst (although anything that
> needs install hooks will have to wait for wheel 1.1, which will support
> metadata 2.0). It's just not a replacement for what hashdist and conda let
> you do when you care more about reproducibility than you do about security
> updates.


OK, that's a good statement - wheels as a better bdist_wininst is all I
want to be able to promote (and yes, if you need post-install hooks, wait
for wheel 1.1).

Paul
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