[Distutils] Other ideas from today's packaging meetup at EuroPython

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 25, 2014, at 08:46 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>Yea, I’m not sure whether I like it or not. Probably once we get a for real
>build farm for PyPI setup that will be a pretty reasonable sized carrot for
>people to upload sources.

That's really the right long-term approach, IMO.  I'd like to some day see
source-only uploads, with wheel builds for various supported platforms
appearing "automatically" via the build farm.

But ultimately you're right.  If we don't have source available from
*somewhere* (with PyPI being the most obvious and easiest location for
downstreams), then oh well, you won't get your package into some Linux
distros, and your users will have to roll their own.

-Barry
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