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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Mon Mar 30 17:45:14 CEST 2015


> On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 30 March 2015 at 16:34, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> The current toolchain absolutely has some problems, but I’m not convinced
>> that shuffling around the same data into different locations is the answer
>> to those problems.
> 
> Moving the data to a location that isn't Turing-complete would be a
> benefit. Changing the processing backend to something different once
> the declarative UI is in common use would be a lot easier than where
> we are now. Even a 90% solution would be worthwhile here - we don't
> *have* to cater for every use case in one go.
> 
> Paul

Well, parts of it are turing complete, since it pulls the version number
out of the module itself and that’s just Python too.

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