[Distutils] pip merges wheel

[Eric V. Smith]

On 3/18/2013 5:16 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Earlier today we merged the existing wheel branch into mainline pip.
>> This adds opt-in wheel install support (built into pip, "pip install
>> --use-wheel ...") and the convenient "pip wheel ..." command for
>> creating the wheels you need.
> 
> I still think it is unfortunate that we are starting to extend pip to
> be a tool for developers to create distributions. It would be better
> of pip was kept as an install tool, and we added the utilities for
> creating distributions separate.

I completely agree. And those tools to build distributions could be
downloaded separately.

-- 
Eric.