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User Guide
==========
Building Wheels
---------------
To build a wheel for your project::
python -m pip install build
python -m build --wheel
This will build any C extensions in the project and then package those and the
pure Python code into a ``.whl`` file in the ``dist`` directory.
If your project contains no C extensions and is expected to work on both
Python 2 and 3, you will want to tell wheel to produce universal wheels by
adding this to your ``setup.cfg`` file:
.. code-block:: ini
[bdist_wheel]
universal = 1
Including license files in the generated wheel file
---------------------------------------------------
Several open source licenses require the license text to be included in every
distributable artifact of the project. By default, ``wheel`` conveniently
includes files matching the following glob_ patterns in the ``.dist-info``
directory:
* ``AUTHORS*``
* ``COPYING*``
* ``LICEN[CS]E*``
* ``NOTICE*``
This can be overridden by setting the ``license_files`` option in the
``[metadata]`` section of the project's ``setup.cfg``. For example:
.. code-block:: cfg
[metadata]
license_files =
license.txt
3rdparty/*.txt
No matter the path, all the matching license files are written in the wheel in
the ``.dist-info`` directory based on their file name only.
By specifying an empty ``license_files`` option, you can disable this
functionality entirely.
.. note:: There used to be an option called ``license_file`` (singular).
As of wheel v0.32, this option has been deprecated in favor of the more
versatile ``license_files`` option.
.. _glob: https://docs.python.org/library/glob.html
Converting Eggs to Wheels
-------------------------
The wheel tool is capable of converting eggs to the wheel format.
It works on both ``.egg`` files and ``.egg`` directories, and you can convert
multiple eggs with a single command::
wheel convert blah-1.2.3-py2.7.egg foo-2.0b1-py3.5.egg
The command supports wildcard expansion as well (via :func:`~glob.iglob`) to
accommodate shells that do not do such expansion natively::
wheel convert *.egg
By default, the resulting wheels are written to the current working directory.
This can be changed with the ``--dest-dir`` option::
wheel convert --dest-dir /tmp blah-1.2.3-py2.7.egg
Installing Wheels
-----------------
To install a wheel file, use pip_::
$ pip install someproject-1.5.0-py2-py3-none.whl
.. _pip: https://pypi.org/project/pip/
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