[Distutils] Using Wheel with zipimport

[Donald Stufft]

On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 January 2014 21:50, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> 
>> As a follow up, even if this becomes something we document and actually
>> support, then it should be done in the next version of Wheel when people
>> have the chance to discuss it. It should not be added ex post facto by
>> a committer to the PEP repo just because they want Wheel to have it.
> 
> It was discussed during the approval process for the wheel format, I
> approved it on the basis that wheels provided a superset of the
> functionality of eggs. I merely missed the fact it wasn't properly
> recorded in the PEP (which is now rectified).
> 
> You can campaign to deprecate that feature *if* we ever want to make a
> change to the wheel format that is incompatible with it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> -- 
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

Can you point to this discussion? Because I cannot find it.

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Donald Stufft
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