A built-package format for Python.
Project description
wheel
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.
0.4
improve test coverage
improve Windows compatibility
include tox.ini courtesy of Marc Abramowitz
draft hmac sha-256 signing function
0.3
prototype egg2wheel conversion script
0.2
Python 3 compatibility
0.1
Initial version
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