On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Xavier Fernandez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the point was not to say that documentation is useless (and there > is some: http://flit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) but that the > code/implementation is much simpler than the combination of > distutils/setuptools/bdist_wheel. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Ian Cordasco <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> So for new python programmers (or newbie users in general) reading the >> entire source of another package to understand it is a better experience? >> >> To put that in context, flit goes for less than 600 SLOC while distutils+setuptools+wheel amount to over 20000 SLOC. At that ratio arguments for distutils+setuptools+wheel documentation seem unreasonable.
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