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

[Xavier Fernandez]

I think the point was not to say that documentation is useless (and there
is some: http://flit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) but that the
code/implementation is much simpler than the combination of
distutils/setuptools/bdist_wheel.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 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.
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>> ​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.
>>
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> 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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