[Distutils] wheels on sys.path clarification (reboot)

Evgeny Sazhin eugene at sazhin.us
Thu Jan 30 06:33:24 CET 2014


>Eh, I think both 1 and 3 are things that are possibly reasonable to happen and
>they are both things that I've contemplated as things to bring forward in
>using xz as an alternative compression format. Even if #1 would need a major
>revision of Wheel to happen adding official "support" for zip import means that
>the change would have to be weighed against also breaking that backwards
>compatibility.


Eh, please don’t break it!! Improve! Keep the ability to add wheels to python path.
I don’t care how, zip import, non-zip import, whatever - allow for jar-like behavior - people will thank you if it will work properly !;)
I know, i’m probably alone in the desert…l;)




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