[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 (PyPI metadata 1.3)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:41:29 -0500
Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> The neat thing about wheel is that you can install them without having the
> software used to build them. So we might try to provide a very simple wheel
> installer script with Python that did not even depend on DistUtils. You
> would be able to install pip etc with that tool. There is no need to put
> wheel directly into DistUtils.

But you still need to *produce* wheels, don't you? It would be more
useful for everyone if that facility was bundled with Python.

Regards

Antoine.