Daniel Holth

PEP 426 right before it was jsonified: https://hg.python.org/peps/file/3b67372b39ba/pep-0426.txt A line in pkg_resources dealing with Provides-Extra: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/4ce518784af886e6977fa2dbe58359d0fe161d0d/pkg_resources/__init__.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#__init__.py-2854 You might also be interested in just a few lines before that where we...

I'm also looking for the first reasonable tag to put on a compiled wheel. As the inventor of the tagging system I assert the `manylinux` tags should come after the...

IMO the passed directory is not necessary. It will certainly match the recently generated one.

I think the current backends always rebuild dist-info as part of the wheel build. The newly rebuilt dist-info is very likely to match the one built moments earlier by the...

Would it be easier to remove this requirement from the specification since no backend found it worthwhile On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, at 8:17 AM, Tzu-ping Chung wrote: > >...

I like the idea of allowing `install_requires` to be replaced by `extra: { None: [list, of, requirements] }`. This is how `pkg_resources` used to work and it reduces the total...

This entire project is a setuptools plugin? AFAICT other wheel generators like flit or enscons avoid using the `wheel` package.

I'm saying I think it should not be a bug that wheel convert depends on setuptools, too bad that the circular depedency causes problems, neat that it might be easy...

wheel[convert] sounds reasonable and harmless. egg is a setuptools format after all.

Wheels are zipfiles which are compressed per-file, and the zip metadata (filenames) is not compressed. If you were to create the zip file with no compression "store" and then lzma...