[Distutils] Using Wheel with zipimport

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 January 2014 23:48, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> So what did you mean when you said "We discussed it extensively before
> PEP 427 was approved" if you're now saying that it wasn't discussed.

"Explicitly" would be a better word:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-September/018960.html

Like I said, that particular aspect wasn't controversial, so while it
was noted a few times (a few other examples of which you found), it
was the overall discussions that were extensive. Both Daniel and I
knew the zipimport compatibility for packages that were themselves zip
compatible was a deliberate feature, so it was a surprise to me when
Armin Ronacher said in his recent article that it wasn't supported
(and hence the clarification).

Cheers,
Nick.

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