Well it sounds like we're ready to actually fix that, by defining a reasonable universal Python sdist format.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On October 28, 2015 at 10:55:54 AM, David Cournapeau (courn...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > > > > > > On 27 Oct 2015 13:30, "Daniel Holth" wrote: > > > > > > > > Mr. grumpy pants, > > > > > > > > Now you're trolling us by describing flit. > > > > > > I'd managed to miss Flit's creation, so I simply wasn't aware of it. > > > > > > Now that I've had a chance to remedy that oversight, yes, flit sounds > > > exactly like what I meant, so it could be worth recommending it ahead > of a > > > full distutils/setuptools based setup.py for simple projects. > > > > > > > IMO, flit should be officially recommended until it at least supports > > building sdist. Not having this feature is a significant pain point for > > downstream distributors, > > > > > Assuming you meant “shouldn’t” I agree. > > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > >
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