This is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in
PEP 427_. It contains the following functionality:
.egg archives into .whl.. _PEP 427: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/
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/
The documentation_ can be found on Read The Docs.
.. _documentation: https://wheel.readthedocs.io/
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
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We found that wheel demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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