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

[Ian Cordasco]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Is figuring out setup.py still a thing? Between cookiecutter laying out
your project with a setup.py and the Packaging Guide, how many people still
have trouble setting up a setup.py for a package? It almost seems like this
is a solution wanting for a problem.
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