[Distutils] Using Wheel with zipimport

[Donald Stufft]

On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:23 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I recall, it was in the original version of the PEP/spec and it was
> always an intended feature. The wheel file for the wheel project
> itself is (deliberately) runnable as a zip file, so that you can
> bootstrap into the wheel world using the "wheel install" command.

I just read every version of the PEP that has ever existed in Mercurial
and no version besides Nick’s most recent contains any text about
the importability of Wheels besides that one of the differences of
Wheel and Egg is that Wheel is an installation format and Egg is
importable.

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