Re: wheel support for Debian?
On May 15, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>Shouldn't it be singular? Each package provides a wheel, not several wheels
>(and I'd name the location the same for consistency).
I thought about this. True, in all current cases there's a single wheel file
in the binary package. I wanted to leave open the possibility that a binary
package could contain multiple wheels, but I agree that's a weak argument
given the scope we're trying to limit here.
Two mild reasons I went with plurals in the package name: I think the
directory where these get laid down on the file system *should* be plural,
since it *will* hold multiple wheels, and I wanted the binary package name to
reflect that.
Also, since we now have python-wheel and python3-wheel packages, which contain
the PyPI wheel package, I thought it was confusing to name the built-wheel
packages with the same suffix. E.g. python-wheel and python-urllib3-wheel
would by naming appear to have a relationship that they actually don't have.
It seemed clearer that the latter would be called python-urllib3-wheels.
It's bikeshedding, but anyway that was my rationale for choosing the names I
did.
Cheers,
-Barry
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