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

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Oct 9 20:49:33 CEST 2015


On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Why would it need dynamic metadata for the windows matplotlib wheel to
> have different metadata from the OSX matplotlib wheel? The platform
> Windows/OSX is static and each wheel declares its own dependencies
> statically but differently. Am I missing something?
>
I think the metadata can be static for the binary wheels, yes. but the
dependencies would be different for the two wheels.

-CHB

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