[Distutils] How to make easy_install handle platlibs?

[Tres Seaver]

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David Cournapeau wrote:
> Buck wrote:
>> I have no clue what you mean by 'sdists'. Is this a widely-known
>> thing?
>>   
> 
> sdist is the name of the distutils command - it just means distributing
> a source tarball.

Nope, by "sdist" I mean the specific tarball generated by the 'sdist'
command (PJE spelled out what is special about them).

Manually-created source tarballs don't have the layout / metadata which
makes automating their installation feasible.


Tres.
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