On May 6, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote: > PEP 427 does discourage direct import from wheels[1] but for the things we > care about immediately, the two conditions should not affect us (i.e. no C > extensions, and no bad use of __file__) so I think we could get away with it. > I'm open to other good arguments for or against using the wheels directly. For what it’s worth, I’m the one who pushed hard against ZipImport capabilities being codified in PEP427 and I can say that we are *incredibly* unlikely to remove that ability without introducing a better way of achieving that. So even if the current method breaks, there is almost certainly going to be a path forward. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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