On 2 June 2017 at 18:02, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > I’m pretty sure the only reason we don’t do it now is because nobody has had > the time to make it happen yet. The problems before weren’t from going via > sdist, they were from trying to modify our copy tree implementation to > filter out .tox, .git, etc. I don’t think we’ve ever tried going via sdist > (other than there is an open PR for it, but it ended up stalling > https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3722).
Oh, yes - it's the filtering stuff out work that I remembered, plus the fact that we'd discussed going via sdist. > Essentially, volunteer time is finite :( In my case, coding time is very limited, but time to write long email responses seems to be freely available. Sigh :-( Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
