[Distutils] Using Wheel with zipimport

[Paul Moore]

On 29 January 2014 12:58, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can campaign to deprecate that feature *if* we ever want to make a
> change to the wheel format that is incompatible with it.

Note that virtualenv uses the ability to run wheels from sys.path. I
don't believe that virtualenv should be a "special exception" here,
nor do I want it to rely on accidents of the implementation.

So from my POV, pypa is already shipping code that relies on this
behaviour being by design.

Paul