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| author | Daniel Holth <dholth@fastmail.fm> | 2012-07-03 10:02:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Holth <dholth@fastmail.fm> | 2012-07-03 10:02:42 -0400 |
| commit | 3c73a94ebdbbe00451988b4d05426a6242e93baa (patch) | |
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| parent | 9f322dd1ccb78a66404e950af092d206ea3b331f (diff) | |
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@@ -2,9 +2,28 @@ wheel ===== -A binary package format for Python. +A built-package package format for Python. Can be installed with a patched version of pip from https://github.com/dholth/pip Requires a patched distribute from https://bitbucket.org/dholth/distribute + +Work on the spec is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWPyvoeiqCrAy4UPNnvaz7Cgrqm4s_cfaTauAeJWABI/edit + +Why not egg? +============ + +Python's egg format predates the packging related standards we have today, +the most important being PEP 376 "Database of Installed Python Distributions" +which specifies the .dist-info directory (instead of .egg-info) and PEP 345 +"Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2" which specifies how to express +dependencies (instead of requires.txt in .egg-info). + +Wheel implements these things. It also provides a richer file naming +convention that communicates the Python implementation and ABI as well as +simply the language version used in a particular package. + +Unlike .egg, wheel will be a fully-documented standard at the binary level +that is truly easy to install even if you do not want to use the reference +implementation.
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