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

[Paul Moore]

On 11 October 2015 at 05:01, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> There's no formal proposal because it doesn't involve distutils-sig --
> it's something that we already know how to do and are working on
> implementing :-). The only reason it doesn't already exist on PyPI is
> that Windows is the main target, and toolchain problems mean that we
> aren't yet able to build numpy or scipy wheels on Windows at all.
> (Long story...)
>
> The basic idea though is just, we make a "python package" with trivial
> structure:

Cool, thanks for the clarification - I hadn't realised it was as
straightforward as this.

Paul