[Distutils] Announcing experimental wheel support in Buildout

[Jim Fulton]

I've just released zc.buildout 2.8.0 and the buildout.wheel extension.

If you have zc.buildout 2.8.0 or later, and you include:

  extensions = buildout.wheel

In the buildout section of your buildout configuration, then buildout
should be able to install distributions as wheels.

This allowed me to install numpy using buildout, which wasn't possible
before.

This is a someone experimental version, which uses humpty to convert wheels
to eggs. humpty in term uses uses distlib which seems to mishandle wheel
metadata. (For example, it chokes if there's extra distribution meta and
makes it impossible for buildout to install python-dateutil from a wheel.)

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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