On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> I feel like you have some sort of "a sdist is jsut a tarball of a VCS"
> mentality and I don't think that idea of a sdist is generally useful.
Hmm, so, between thinking this over more on the plane today and reading
your and Paul's great repl
On October 4, 2015 at 2:22:51 PM, Nathaniel Smith (n...@pobox.com) wrote:
> > I guess to make progress in this conversation I need some more
> detailed explanations. I totally get that there's a long history
> of thought and conversations behind the various assertions
> here like "a sdist is fun
Let me see if I can help clarify, so it's not just Donald who says so :-)
It does feel as if we're trying to explain a lot of things that
"everybody knows". Clearly not everybody knows, as you don't, but what
we're trying to clarify here is the de facto realities of how sdists
work, and how people
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On October 2, 2015 at 10:27:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith (n...@pobox.com) wrote:
>>
>> So I'm extremely reluctant to give up on standardizing how to handle
>> VCS checkouts. And if we're going to have a standard for that, then
>> would sure be nice
