On 5 October 2015 at 13:44, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > [3] Unlike Paul, I think a Source Wheel is actually a decent name for this > concept. It's similar to .rpm and .src.rpm in that world, and I think it > makes it more obvious that this item isn't an installable item in it's own > right, that it exists in order to produce binary wheels. However, this > concept is currently being handled by the sdist "format", however > ambigiously defined that currently is. I also think it makes it a bit > easier to get rid of the ambigous "package", since we can just call them > all "wheels" which is easier to say than "distribution".
Being a Windows user, I hadn't caught the parallel between Wheel-Source wheel and RPM-Source RPM (is there also a similar deb-source deb pair?) But if the concept works for people with a Linux background, I'm OK with it. (My main concern is that end users commonly make requests to projects saying "please provide wheels". I don't want that nice simple concept to get confused, if we can avoid it). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
