[Distutils] wheel including files it shouldn't

[Daniel Holth]

Whatever the ideal situation (not using distutils at all would be a
suggestion) bdist_wheel certainly has some simple bugs that make it less
fun to use sometimes.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:14 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
wrote:

> Are you seriously saying that you want your bdists to include tests,
> documentation etc.?
> Most developers would not agree with you, including yours truly.
>
> 27.04.2016, 21:10, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
> > On 04/27/2016 10:52 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> >
> >> This isn't really a problem with what you're doing. Rather it's an issue
> >> with the toolchain and and open question whether or not wheels should
> >> conceptually be able to be produced from a checkout, or if they should
> >> only be produced from a sdist. Problems like this are why I advocate the
> >> Checkout -> sdist -> wheel being the only path, but others feel
> >> differently.
> >
> > As a simple user, my feelings are that the command I used should have
> > generated three equivalent distributions, but did not.  That feels
> > like a bug.  :(
> >
> > Let me rephrase my question:  what command do I use to build the wheel
> > from the sdist I just made?  For bonus points:  why can't setup do
> > that for me?
> >
> > --
> > ~Ethan~
> >
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