[Distutils] wheel building help needed

[Evgeny Sazhin]

Brian,

that's very kind of you - i will definitely ping you for questions,
but after my small vacation;)

Thanks,
Eugene

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Brian Wickman <wickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Happy to answer any specific questions about PEX here or off-thread.  I'm
> hacking on wheel support in my spare time -- hope to ship that sometime in
> the next couple weeks.  The other big upcoming change is standardizing
> docstrings throughout so that we can get a proper API published on
> readthedocs.
>
> ~brian
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eugene at sazhin.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Evgeny, while you can probably make wheels do what you want, if you're
>> > interested in single file executables, you're almost certainly better
>> > off
>> > using one of the tools designed to make those easier to work with (like
>> > Twitter's recently discussed PEX format, or PEP 441).
>> >
>> > As you have discovered, cross platform single file executables are an
>> > area
>> > where the currently published documentation is even less polished and
>> > coherent than that for the rest of the packaging infrastructure :)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Nick.
>>
>>
>> Nick,
>>
>> Thank you for pointing that out. I took a brief look at the pyz stuff
>> and while it might be good generally - it doesn't help me much. There
>> are two problems i'm trying to solve : dependency management and
>> jar-like behavior (as libraries or executables). Pip + wheel combo
>> seems to be geared better for that task (may be as you guys are
>> pointing out, not intentionally, but still seems to be better
>> approach).
>>
>> We will definitely take a look at PEX as from the very scattered info
>> i got so far they seem to be very good at dependency management - so
>> that might be an option.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eugene
>>
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