doesn't work with wheels

[bollwyvl]

Installing a module distributed on pypi as a wheel, which i thought was The Right Way To Do Things These Days won't execute the command classes jupyter-pip provides... this SO sums the issue up, and there is no real alternative presented.

For my little library, ipytangle, I've gone back to wheel-less distribution. Perhaps if we ever get a jupyter_static entry_point, I can go back to them 😿.

In the meantime, perhaps noting this on the README would help keep more hair on heads... which is the whole goal of this, right?

[jdfreder]

Thanks @bollwyvl , I'll add a note to the README. I think you're right- that's the best we can do here.

[stuaxo]

@bollwyvl do you know if there is an upstream proposal for a jupyter_static entrypoint in jupyter itself ?

[bollwyvl]

This is solved, for example, in the cookie cutter, with package_data and friends: https://github.com/vidartf/opinionated-widget-cookiecutter/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.github_project_name%7D%7D/setup.py

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[stuaxo]

It looks like WHL distribution is going to become the only way to do things going forward, along with no post-install hooks.

The only solution I can think of is if jupyter-pip installs a binary "jupyter-pip" that uses pip download to download the whl, then installs the extension into jupyter.

Install would then end up being something like

pip install jupyter-pip && jupyter-pip install myextension

[stuaxo]

So, I was wrong on the wheel-only front, source based distros will be supported into the future (this wasn't exactly clear to me when I wrote the original message).