[Distutils] wheel including files it shouldn't
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Apr 27 14:40:03 EDT 2016
On 04/27/2016 11:13 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> Are you seriously saying that you want your bdists to include tests,
> documentation etc.?
However you and I agree or disagree on what should be in a bdist, the
command I ran should have produced a bdist based on the sdists I just
created in the same command.
> Most developers would not agree with you, including yours truly.
Well, we disagree. To me, the salient difference between an sdist and a
bdist is whether binary artifacts are, um, already built. I certianly
enjoy having docs (so I know how to use the binaries I just installed)
and tests (so I can assure myself the binaries work as advertised).
If a project is big enough I can see making separate packages for docs
and/or tests, but mine are small.
And whichever way we decide to do the packaging, the tools should work
for us, not us for the tools.
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~Ethan~
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