[Distutils] wheel including files it shouldn't

[Daniel Holth]

To answer the original question, report the bug here
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 04/27/2016 12:00 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
>
> > The sdist should include all the source files, including tests and
> > documentation. In binary distributions, however, they are just dead
> > weight. Do you want the full documentation and test suites to be
> > installed for every single dependency when you deploy your application?
> > I sure don't.
>
> That's makes a certain amount of sense.
>
> It also raises some questions:
>
> - are wheels a binary-only distribution?
>    - if yes, we still have to use distutils to make source distributions?
>    - if no, what are the commands to make source vs binary distributions?
>
> - is this just a matter of a properly configured setup.py?
>    - if yes, what is that configuration?
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
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