wheel
This is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in
PEP 427
_. It contains the following functionality:
- Convert
.egg
archives into .whl
- Unpack wheel archives
- Repack wheel archives
- Add or remove tags in existing wheel archives
.. _PEP 427: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/
Historical note
This project used to contain the implementation of the setuptools_ bdist_wheel
command, but as of setuptools v70.1, it no longer needs wheel
installed for that to
work. Thus, you should install this only if you intend to use the wheel
command
line tool!
.. _setuptools: https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/
Documentation
The documentation_ can be found on Read The Docs.
.. _documentation: https://wheel.readthedocs.io/
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the wheel project's codebases, issue trackers, chat
rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct
_.
.. _PSF Code of Conduct: https://github.com/pypa/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md