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Support wheel packages #16

Closed fbender closed 8 years ago

fbender commented 8 years ago

Since the Python ecosystem is moving on from eggs to wheels as their primary distribution format, it'd be great if enstaller will support wheel files (both downloadable and local packages). A lot of packages are already packaged as wheels by their developers and can be obtained through PyPI or other sources, and it'd be great to be able to use them.

fbender commented 8 years ago

It might be a good idea to integrate with pip here so you can reuse its capabilites as much as possible (not necessarily its dependency resolver, though 😉).

cournape commented 8 years ago

Hi @fbender. So while we still support enstaller (inside canopy and existing EPD installers), we are considering it legacy. We have been working on a completely new package manager with a pluggable architecture allowing for egg and wheel, etc... It will be open sourced, integrated in canopy, and announced in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

fbender commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the update! Sounds good.