On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 09:16 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > How you build the release-quality sdist isn’t really of concern of PEP > 517 any more than building a release quality wheel is, it’s up to the > build tool to implement that as it makes sense for them. But if we have a hook for building something called an sdist, we need to define what an sdist is. The definition you're referring to is a functional definition sufficient for a tool that only wants to install it, but it doesn't cover what an sdist means or how it fits into workflows. > I could see this as an argument that the PEP should have *both* a > build_sdist and a prepare_build_files hook, if you don’t think that > the build_sdist hook is suitable on it’s own. I would prefer that to the the current status of one hook that tries to cover both use cases. I'd still rather specify prepare_build_files in this PEP, and leave the sdist hook to a later PEP. I don't see a great need for a standard interface to building an sdist: the developer doing that by calling their build tool directly seems adequate for the majority of use cases. Thomas
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