paver bdist_wheel failure

[tathagata]

On executing paver bdist_wheel I keep getting
Build failed: Unknown task:bdist_wheel

Used paver generate_setup to generate setup.py, and my pavement.py is simple enough

 options(
        setup=dict(
        name='foo',
        ...
        )
  )

It seems like I do not have my imports right, and been shooting in the dark trying to import everything - just hoping to get it working.

from paver.easy import *
from paver.setuputils import *
from paver.tasks import *`

installed versions

pip-9.0.1
wheel==0.29.0
Paver==1.2.4

[Almad]

@tathagata Can I just also ask what your Python and OS version is? Are you executing it directly in the OS, or do you use virtualenv?

[tathagata]

@Almad thanks for replying.
I used OS X, Python version 3.4.3 with pyenv

tdasgupt $ uname -a
Darwin 2usmtdasgupt.local 16.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.5.0: Fri Mar  3 16:52:33 PST 2017; root:xnu-3789.51.2~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 
tdasgupt  $ python -V
Python 3.4.3

Here is doing the same on Ubuntu and Python 3.5.3 and virtualenv

 (tptest) t (master) project $ python -V
 Python 3.5.3
 (tptest) t (master) terrestrial-pipeline-submitter $ uname -a
 Linux vb 4.10.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 22 17:43:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 (tptest) t (master) project $ python -m pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
  ... 
  Collecting paver==1.2.4 (from -r requirements_dev.txt (line 3))
      Using cached Paver-1.2.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  ...
  Installing collected packages: pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, flake8, py, pytest, paver
  Successfully installed flake8-3.3.0 mccabe-0.6.1 paver-1.2.4 py-1.4.34 pycodestyle-2.3.1 pyflakes-1.5.0 pytest-3.0.3
  (tptest) t (master) project $ python -m paver --version
  Paver 1.2.4
  (tptest) t (master) project $ python -m paver bdist_wheel
  Build failed: Unknown task: bdist_wheel

I doubt this is an os or version issue. I'm trying to look at other projects to find examples, but don't see anything that is immediately obvious.

Thanks once again for replying.

[tathagata]

@Almad if you get a chance, could you point me to any project that you have come across which is creating wheels with paver? Would love to see if I can make this work somehow.

[Almad]

@tathagata I am not aware of any directly, but you can try writing in the mailing list. Will try to look into it as well :)