[Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com <mailto:graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>> wrote:
> So perhaps I'm missing something, but why are we talking about trying
> to shoehorn a legacy design into Wheel? Why wouldn't we leave
> bdist_egg alone and start trying to find a better way to replace it?
> We could avoid over-complicating Wheel and we could spend time
> polishing whatever we come up with.
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> It is because wheel is almost identical to egg, but the name 'newegg' was already in use by a major online retailer. Possibly adding the one missing egg feature to wheel would save someone some time. Maybe you would want to give 'extracted wheel in its own directory' a different name, or no name, to avoid confusion.

Installing a wheel to a single directory is fine. It’s no longer a wheel at that point, it is an installed distribution.

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Donald Stufft



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