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

[Daniel Holth]

The approach doesn't exclude the possibility of a source distribution,
it's only a few weeks old. I would suggest that if you have to choose
between having a setup.py, not having a setup.py, and not having the
package on pypi at all because the packager can't figure out setup.py,
prefer the second option.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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