On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 October 2015 at 18:27, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> There are projects on PyPI right now, today, that have no way to >> generate sdists and will never have any need for "source wheels" > > I think I'm as confused by what you're saying here as Donald is. Could > you give a few examples of such projects? I'd like to go & take a look > at them and try to understand what they are doing that is so > incompatible with what Donald and I are thinking of as a"source > wheel".
An example would be flit itself: https://github.com/takluyver/flit https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flit It's not that you couldn't support a "source wheel" here, it's just that forcing them to go checkout -> source wheel -> wheel would be adding pointless hassle while accomplishing nothing useful. pip would never actually touch the source wheel, and for the remaining use cases for source distribution, a classic "source release" that's basically a tarball of a VCS checkout + static version number would be more familiar and useful. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
