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

[Daniel Holth]

This is also a great time to be getting working setup-requires. A
pip-compatible flit sdist could declare flit as a setup requirement,
and its setup.py could translate install/bdist_wheel to the
appropriate flit calls.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș
<contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> 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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