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# Design and Scope
## What this is for
This project is born out of [this discussion][1]. Effectively, the volunteers
who maintain the Python packaging toolchain identified a need for a library in
the ecology that handles the details of "wheel -> installed package". This is
that library.
There's also a need for “a fast tool to populate a package into an environment”
and this library can be used to build that. This package itself might also
"grow" a CLI, to provide just that functionality.
[1]: https://discuss.python.org/t/3869/
## What is provided
- Abstractions for installation of a wheel distribution.
- Utilities for writing concrete implementations of these abstractions.
- Concrete implementations of these abstraction, for the most common usecase.
- Utilities for handling wheel RECORD files.
- Utilities for generating Python script launchers.
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