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

[Daniel Holth]

Yes, setup.py should die. Flit is one example, and you can understand
it not by copy/pasting, but by spending half an hour reading its
complete source code.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Ian Cordasco
<graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.