[Distutils] Wheels and console script entry point wrappers (Was: Replacing pip.exe with a Python script)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 July 2013 23:08, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick: See the above point re PEP 426 - do you agree that this needs
> addressing in Metadata 2.0?

I believe Daniel already covered it in PEP 427 - rather than baking
the entry point wrappers into the wheel, installers can generate any
needed entry point wrappers if the wheel includes Python scripts in
{distribution}-{version}.data/scripts/ (see
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#recommended-installer-features)

Now, there may be holes in that scheme, but it seemed solid enough
when I approved the PEP.

Cheers,
Nick.

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