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| author | Daniel Holth <dholth@fastmail.fm> | 2013-07-20 21:15:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Holth <dholth@fastmail.fm> | 2013-07-20 21:15:49 -0400 |
| commit | 6a961ea10aca5af1a2fc770b41ab7a6bd324afe6 (patch) | |
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| download | wheel-6a961ea10aca5af1a2fc770b41ab7a6bd324afe6.tar.gz | |
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@@ -12,30 +12,30 @@ preserves enough information to "Spread" (copy data and scripts to their final locations) at any later time. The wheel project provides a `bdist_wheel` command for setuptools -(requires distribute >= 0.6.34). Wheel files can be -installed with a newer `pip` from https://github.com/pypa/pip -or with wheel's own command line utility. +(requires setuptools >= 0.8.0). Wheel files can be installed with a +newer `pip` from https://github.com/pypa/pip or with wheel's own command +line utility. -The wheel documentation is at http://wheel.rtfd.org/. The -file format is documented in PEP 427 -(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/). +The wheel documentation is at http://wheel.rtfd.org/. The file format +is documented in PEP 427 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/). The reference implementation is at http://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/ Why not egg? ------------ -Python's egg format predates the packaging 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). +Python's egg format predates the packaging 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 426 "Metadata for Python Software Packages 2.0" +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. +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. +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. |