[Distutils] Are there any plans to move to pip/wheels in buildout?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 December 2014 at 16:05, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wheel also has its own installer. It hasn't received as much attention
>>> since pip gained support.
>> 
>> That's actually a very good point - the wheel project has its own
>> "install a wheel" API, not just the command line tool. If that's all
>> buildout needs, it may be a simple way of adding wheel support. If
>> buildout needs "the other stuff" that pip/setuptools provides, around
>> discovery and downloading from PyPI, version/requirements checking,
>> script wrappers, etc, then that's a bigger issue of course.
> 
> Yup. Buildout uses setuptools to find distributions.
> 
> I suppose the wheel installer library could facilitate adding wheel
> support to setuptools.  Maybe someone on the buildout team should
> look at that.  My guess is that adding discovery of wheels in indexes and
> such probably isn't that hard.
> 

Installing Wheels in general isn’t that hard either TBH. It probably
wouldn’t be a ton of work to add support for that to setuptools.

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