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

[Ian Cordasco]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> In other words, no one should read the docs because that's a waste of
>> time? Because a lot of time has been poured into the packaging docs and if
>> they're not sufficient, then instead of improving them, people should write
>> undocumented tools that force people to read the source? I'm not sure how
>> that's better than what we already have.
>
>
> ​A waste of time? No. But it sure is poor investment of time for newbie
> users. It's a futile struggle to document (or read about) all the features
> of distutils and setuptools, not because it can't be documented, but
> because there's too much ground to cover and PyPA's packaging.python.org
> approach is to ​just give an overview of what's available and avoid giving
> any real best practice recommendations as much as possible. There may be
> good reasons for that but that's not a sensible approach to giving users a
> "pitfall free" learning path.
>

So for new python programmers (or newbie users in general) reading the
entire source of another package to understand it is a better experience?
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