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

[Paul Moore]

On 16 July 2013 22:41, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> If the PEP is updated to include the exports, they should be in the wheel
> no
> matter which tool builds it. Then in theory distlib could generate the
> scripts during installation, but there are a lot of options to consider -
> did setuptools put them in there already? Do we want native launchers? etc.
> which is perfectly doable in distlib, but I'm not sure that's the best
> place
> for it because I think wheel processing should be uncomplicated.
> Wheel.install already has quite a few kwargs:
>

I really don't want the wrappers to be present in the wheel, because if
they are the wheel becomes architecture-specific. Also, consider that Unix
targets should have the actual scripts written with no extension, whereas
Windows targets should have foo-script.py and foo.exe. That should be
decided at install time, bot at wheel creation time.

As regards version-specific scripts, I'd assume it's the project's job to
specify precisely what scripts they want. On that one, I'm on the side of
providing infrastructure, not setting policy. Although I could be persuaded
otherwise if there was a PEP on what commands a distribution should
provide. In that case, let the project provide the command names, and let
the installer implement the standard versioned-executable policy.

Paul.
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