Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> writes: > Generally, is it OK (recommended/socially acceptable) to upload > universal wheels only or is the sdist still nice to have available? I > guess maybe for pip, but it considering universal, pure-Python wheels > as "binaries" seems quirky.
None the less, the Wheel format *is* a format intended for installation (so a “binary” format in that terminology). A wheel is not suitable for making changes and re-building from source. So the source distribution still needs to be uploaded as well, to support that important freedom for the recipient. -- \ “Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.” | `\ —Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
