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

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Xavier Fernandez <xav.fernandez at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> So for new python programmers (or newbie users in general) reading the
>> entire source of another package to understand it is a better experience?
>>
>> ​
​To put that in context, flit goes for less than 600 SLOC while
distutils+setuptools+wheel amount to​ over 20000 SLOC. At that ratio
arguments for distutils+setuptools+wheel documentation seem unreasonable.

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