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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index a6706be..7575c40 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -88,14 +88,13 @@ be used to generate platform-specific scripts wrappers. Most usefully these wrappers include `.exe` launchers if they are generated on a Windows machine. -By default `bdist_wheel` puts pre-generated versions of these wrappers -into the `*.data/scripts/` directory of the archive. This means a -Windows user may have trouble running scripts from a wheel generated -on Unix and vice-versa. As of version 0.21.0 `python setup.py -bdist_wheel --skip-scripts` is available to create wheels that do not -contain the setuptools script wrappers. The wheel tool `python -m wheel -install-scripts packagename` calls setuptools to write the appropriate -scripts wrappers after an install. +As of 0.23.0, `bdist_wheel` no longer places pre-generated versions of these +wrappers into the `*.data/scripts/` directory of the archive (non-setuptools +scripts are still present, of course). + +If the scripts are needed, use a real installer like `pip`. The wheel tool +`python -m wheel install-scripts package [package ...]` can also be used at +any time to call setuptools to write the appropriate scripts wrappers. Defining the Python version --------------------------- @@ -133,13 +132,16 @@ or:: [bdist_wheel] python-tag = py32 - Automatically sign wheel files ------------------------------ +Wheel contains an experimental digital signatures scheme based on Ed25519 +signatures; these signatures are unrelated to pgp/gpg signatures and do not +include a trust model. + `python setup.py bdist_wheel` will automatically sign wheel files if the environment variable `WHEEL_TOOL` is set to the path of the `wheel` -command line tool:: +command line tool.:: # Install the wheel tool and its dependencies $ pip install wheel[tool] @@ -155,10 +157,6 @@ libraries. The keyring library may not be able to find your keys (choosing a different key storage back end based on available dependencies) unless you run it from the same environment used for keygen. -A future version of `wheel sign` will be able to choose different signing -keys depending on the package name, in case a user wishes to reserve a -more widely trusted key for packages they intend to distribute. - Format ------ |