[Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 20:14:20 CEST 2015


On 7 October 2015 at 18:27, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> There are projects on PyPI right now, today, that have no way to
> generate sdists and will never have any need for "source wheels"

I think I'm as confused by what you're saying here as Donald is. Could
you give a few examples of such projects? I'd like to go & take a look
at them and try to understand what they are doing that is so
incompatible with what Donald and I are thinking of as a"source
wheel".

Paul


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