On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Matthew Iversen <matt@notevencode.com> wrote:
For example, the two are different for flask, virtualenv, setuptools,
sopel, numpy

these are some pretty significant, complex packages.

I have trouble finding an objective reasoning that one method is to be
objectively preferred over the other.

No one is suggesting reducing flexibility here. The topic under discussion is what should be recommended and demonstrated for newbies, and the simplest reasonable thing to do there the better - one Readme.rst seems the obvious answer for that.


We always want to balance this with keeping `sampleproject` as simple as
possible to make it practical and
immediately useful, rather than overly technical.

Exactly.

-CHB



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