[JNRowe]

That’s a great idea. I’ve just been playing with the implementation from the PEP, and it makes things really easy.

The speed of simply extracting a bunch of wheels directly in to `__pypackages__/$PYVER/lib/` is a huge benefit. It behaves well if you symlink from a global tree of extracted packages too, like an even simpler version of pundler¹.

If others want to play with it without too much breakage, I massaged the patch on to 3.7². The 3.8 base was a little too big a change for my liking ;)

1. https://github.com/Deepwalker/pundler 2. https://gist.github.com/JNRowe/502f8772861cdd21bff5144c416e4...

Edit: It’s a third of a second to stand up a complete environment with 63 wheels in its dependency tree for the project I'm playing with right now.