On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > 1) what in the world is a "source wheel"? And how is it different than an > sdist (other than maybe in a different file format.
It seemed like people had different ideas about what a platonic "sdist" even is and this was causing us to talk past each other. So I proposed the terms "source release" and "source wheel" as two somewhat abstract concepts to let us to state positions like "I think an sdist should fill the role of a source wheel, and that there's no need for source releases", or "I think source wheels and source releases are different and important, so we need one spec for each". I'm not sure how much it helped :-) This is the email that suggested distinguishing between the terms: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-October/026981.html and the "source wheel" term in particular was stolen from Donald's earlier email: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-October/026964.html -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
