Join forces with rewheel?

[ncoghlan]

Rewheel was the original project to serve this purpose (as part of Fedora's ensurepip implementation), and it seems redundant to maintain two different utilities for the same task rather than collaborating on a shared need: https://github.com/fedora-python/rewheel

Could someone explain how dirtbike differs from rewheel, and what would need to change to be able to merge the two projects?

(/cc @bkabrda)

[warsaw]

dirtbike really was narrowly focused on what we needed immediately to fix the whole virtualenv/venv/pip/etc stack in Debian. I commented over in the rewheel project, but I think dirtbike should be (or at least wants to be) pluggable enough to support other distros. I'm interested to see what changes you'd need to support the F/RH ecosystem.

[paulproteus]

I, for one, am tentatively enthusiastic about joining forces, even though I enjoyed writing dirtbike. Naturally, it's important that the result be something that we can use for dirtbike's existing purpose. I'm currently swamped, so I'm not going to be able to do much more on this over the next month or so. I'll add a reminder to think about this more in May.