On Apr 27 2016, at 2:09 pm, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 04/27/2016 10:52 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > This isn't really a problem with what you're doing. Rather it's an issue > with the toolchain and and open question whether or not wheels should > conceptually be able to be produced from a checkout, or if they should > only be produced from a sdist. Problems like this are why I advocate the > Checkout -> sdist -> wheel being the only path, but others feel differently. > > As a simple user, my feelings are that the command I used should have generated three equivalent distributions, but did not. That feels like a bug. :( I agree with you. Others don't believe it to be a big deal. > Let me rephrase my question: what command do I use to build the wheel from the sdist I just made? For bonus points: why can't setup do that for me? > > You can first build the sdist, then unpack it into a directory and then run ``setup.py bdist_wheel`` inside of that directory.
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