pypa/pip — pull request #699 by qwcode (2012-10-05 04:44:57+00:00)
Title: experimental support for installing wheel archives

This pull offers experimental install support for wheel archives.

for reference, there's actually been 6 previous pulls on this, open and closed for various reasons.
#594, #601, #651, #684, #690, #694

Most of the meaty conversation happened in #684. That ended with a proposition to break up the pull into 2 parts: the install support and the build support. That's the only reason I'm the owner of this pull currently, because I attempted the breakup.

So this pull is the install support.
Some thoughts on the wheel build support are here: https://gist.github.com/3828683

known limitations/concerns:
- except for python version, there's no selection and prioritization by the tags that wheel supports
- requires distribute=0.6.28 and markerlib
- no support for signature verification (the wheel PEP supports signing)