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

[Ian Cordasco]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> setup.py as implemented with distutils/setuptools has a bit of a
> Goldilocks problem: it's just right for a medium-complexity project
> but when your project is very simple it's too hard, and when you get
> to the point where you are trying to extend distutils by writing a
> 10,000 line extension, yikes. So it's fantastic to be able to just
> avoid distutils entirely if it isn't the right size for your project.
> This example, flit, does not invoke any code from distutils,
> setuptools or bdist_wheel to do its thing.
>
> A source release could just be an archive of the repository.
>

You still have not answered how reading flit's source code to get it
working is better than using cookiecutter to generate a project, and using
`python setup.py bdist_wheel sdist` (which is well-documented, and has tons
of answered questions on sites like StackOverflow to help in case of a
problem).
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