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

[Ian Foote]

On 30/03/15 16:05, Ian Cordasco wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dholth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, setup.py should die. Flit is one example, and you can understand
>     it not by copy/pasting, but by spending half an hour reading its
>     complete source code.
>
>
> 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.

You're attacking a strawman. Flit does have documentation. What Daniel 
was trying to say is that flit is small enough to understand by just 
reading the source code.

Regards,
Ian F
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