[Distutils] Beyond wheels 1.0: helping downstream, FHS and more

[Daniel Holth]

The wheel installer does call setuptools to generate console script
wrappers.
On Apr 18, 2015 1:36 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 April 2015 at 18:19, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> (your quote trimming's a bit over-enthusiastic, you lost the attribution
> here)
>
> >> "python -m something" rather than just "something" isn't broken, it's
> >> just an inconvenience.
> >
> > Tell that to a newbie. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that should
> > "just work".
>
> It's a huge "quality of implementation" issue, certainly - any
> installer that doesn't include script generation built in is going to
> be as annoying as hell to a user. But they do exist (wheel install,
> for instance) and the resulting installation "works", even if a
> newcomer would hate it. So it's not "mandatory" in the sense that no
> functionality is lost. But this is a moot point, as PEP 459 says the
> python.commands extension SHOULD be marked as required. And wheel
> install would technically be in violation of PEP 426, as it doesn't
> handle script wrappers and it doesn't fail when a package needs them
> (only "technically", because PEP 426 isn't finalised yet, and "wheel
> install" could be updated to support it).
>
> But I'd already said most of that - you just pulled that one point out
> of context.
>
> Paul
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