[Distutils] Wheels and console script entry point wrappers (Was: Replacing pip.exe with a Python script)

[Daniel Holth]

Need a script that visits all the console-script entry points to
regenerate the wrappers. Then there are also the non-console-scripts
scripts...

I consider scripts as an optional convenience, but I suppose that
isn't always the case.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes, Nick pointed me at that part of the PEP. Nobody's doing that at the
>> moment, and exes are being added to the wheels at wheel build time, which
>> is also wrong.
>
> Not true for distlib - it doesn't add .exe wrappers to wheels at build time
> :-) It adds them to the target directory when installing under Windows. (You
> can also choose not to install any wrappers.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Vinay Sajip
>
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