On 17 Jul, 2013, at 17:46, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
I'm going to be pushing an update to one of my projects to PyPI this week and so I figured I could use this opportunity to help with patches to the User Guide's packaging tutorial.
But to do that I wanted to ask what the current best practices are.
* Are we even close to suggesting wheels for source distributions?
No, wheels don't replace source distributions at all. They just let you install something without having to have whatever built the wheel from its sdist. It is currently nice to have them available.
I'd like to see an ambitious person begin uploading wheels that have no traditional sdist.
Do you mean an sdist without a setup.py? That will likely take some time, for the time being projects will still need a setup.py that just prints information on how to build them (or bootstraps the actual wheel building tool). Ronald