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

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this satisfies all of the requirements for static metadata and
> one-to-one correspondence of source wheels and binary wheels. If numpy
> followed this then I imagine that there would be a single source wheel
> on PyPI corresponding to the one configuration that would be used
> consistently there. However numpy still needs to separately release
> the code in a form that is also usable in all of the many other
> contexts that it is already used.
>

​Can't that configuration just be the build defaults​? There would be a
single source but with some preset build configuration. People with
different needs can just override those.

Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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