[Distutils] it's happened - wheels without sdists (flit)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Mon Mar 30 16:32:56 CEST 2015


> On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering when someone would attempt this. Simple .ini file and
> some conventions, and you have a pip-installable wheel. No
> bdist_wheel, setup.py, MANIFEST or setuptools involved. I like it.
> Still alpha/beta.
> 
> https://github.com/takluyver/flit
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Wheels without sdists are likely a generally bad idea, downstream
redistributors are not going to like them.

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