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@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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