[Distutils] Time for a setuptools_lite??

[Donald Stufft]

On October 28, 2015 at 10:55:54 AM, David Cournapeau (cournape at gmail.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>  
> >
> > On 27 Oct 2015 13:30, "Daniel Holth" wrote:
> > >
> > > Mr. grumpy pants,
> > >
> > > Now you're trolling us by describing flit.
> >
> > I'd managed to miss Flit's creation, so I simply wasn't aware of it.
> >
> > Now that I've had a chance to remedy that oversight, yes, flit sounds
> > exactly like what I meant, so it could be worth recommending it ahead of a
> > full distutils/setuptools based setup.py for simple projects.
> >
>  
> IMO, flit should be officially recommended until it at least supports
> building sdist. Not having this feature is a significant pain point for
> downstream distributors,
>  


Assuming you meant “shouldn’t” I agree.


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