[Distutils] it's happened - wheels without sdists (flit)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Mon Mar 30 17:06:27 CEST 2015


> On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, setup.py should die. Flit is one example, and you can understand
> it not by copy/pasting, but by spending half an hour reading its
> complete source code.

I don’t have a problem with flit (although I’m not sure it’s easier, it
appears it took the setup.py keyword args and turned them into ini file
directives). I do have a problem with any solution which doesn’t include
sdist support.

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