pip 1.4

[qwcode]

done & merged

• wheel support (pip support for wheel #845)
• vendorize distlib
• only install stable releases (Only install stable releases by default #834)
• wheel tests
• remove markerlib installs from wheel tests

needs review

• fix proxy support (fix proxy support #840, @qwcode)
• desupport isolated virtualenv.py pin --never-download to TRUE virtualenv#412 (@pfmoore)
• deal with pre-existing build dir (deal with pre-existing build dirs #865, @qwcode)

in progress

• Fix remote requirements in Python 3 (Fix remote requirements in Python 3 #851, @hltbra )
• wheel issues
  • raise error with setuptools (@dholth)
  • priority logic to prefer a platform wheel over a generic wheel (@dholth)
  • docs on if/when users should upload platform-specific wheels to pypi (@dholth)
  • pip wheel --keep-existing (or --force in reverse); i.e. some way to not redo wheel building. if you don't want. (pip wheel should not build if the wheel already exists #855, @pfmoore)
• wheel tests (@qwcode or anybody)
  • use-wheel in requirements files
  • "pip wheel --use-wheel" finding subreqs from a wheel
  • no-deps with wheel installs
• virtualenv 1.10
  • document that --extra-search-dirs doesn't work (--extra-search-dir only supports alternative versions for pip. virtualenv#327)

[qwcode]

closing. using milestones now
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?milestone=1&state=open