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This is blatantly untrue, pip installs wheels. eggs are dead, easy_install is dead. let them die. We are talking about Python 3.4 here, after all.

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I don't know much about the wheel format. But eggs being dead is news to me. You have links for those interested in more info?

here are some wheel links:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel

https://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/

i am using wheel (with pip) as a replacement for .exe installers to install some packages (numpy, scipy, py2exe, etc) on windows. i find it useful because you can automate the installation of a wheel archive using pip (with the typical .exe windows installers you need to click next several times...). the wheel command line utility also knows how to convert existing `.exe` installers to wheel archives.

I read all that, I was more interested in information on the "eggs are dead" assertion.

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