source: chapter08/wheel.xml@ a2434bd4

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<sect1 id="ch-system-wheel" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="wheel.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>wheel</productname>
    <productnumber>&wheel-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&wheel-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Wheel-&wheel-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-wheel">
    <primary sortas="a-wheel">wheel</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Wheel is a Python library that is the reference
    implementation of the Python wheel packaging standard.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&wheel-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&wheel-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Wheel</title>

    <para>Compile Wheel with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">PYTHONPATH=src pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install Wheel with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links=dist wheel</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the pip3 configuration options and commands:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><envar>PYTHONPATH=src</envar></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Allows this package (not installed yet) to build a
           wheel archive for itself, to avoid a chicken-or-egg problem.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><command>wheel</command></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>This command builds the wheel archive for this package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-w dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Instructs pip to put the created wheel into the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><command>install</command></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>This command installs the package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--no-build-isolation</parameter>,
              <parameter>--no-deps</parameter>, and
              <parameter>--no-index</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>These options prevent fetching files from the online package
          repository (PyPI). If packages are installed in the correct order,
          pip won't need to fetch any files in the first place; these
          options add some safety in case of user error.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--find-links dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Instructs pip to search for wheel archives in the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-wheel" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Wheel</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>wheel</seg>
        <seg>
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/wheel and
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/wheel-&wheel-version;.dist-info
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="wheel-wheel">
        <term><command>wheel</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a utility to unpack, pack, or convert wheel archives
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-wheel">
            <primary sortas="b-wheel">wheel</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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