Re: [Distutils] how sdist generation works in enscons

2017-07-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 July 2017 at 12:19, Daniel Holth wrote: > Enscons itself doesn't have a way to know whether sdist generation will > succeed other than trying to run 'SCons sdist' against the user provided > build script. Right, so the most `enscons` would be able to do to help prepare the build environment

[Distutils] how sdist generation works in enscons

2017-07-05 Thread Daniel Holth
Here's how sdist generation works in enscons. enscons, a build tool that exists to prototype new Python packaging features, is just a set of tools for SCons that makes it easier to generate wheels and sdists. If targets with certain names exist (sdist, bdist_wheel) then the provide setup.py shim a