[Distutils] Time for a setuptools_lite??

[Daniel Holth]

Well it sounds like we're ready to actually fix that, by defining a
reasonable universal Python sdist format.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> 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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