[Distutils] wheel including files it shouldn't

[Daniel Holth]

Wheel has a proposal for a "wheel pack" command that might help you.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 12:46 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

> On 27Apr2016 1445, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Personally, I agree with Donald that the "normal" process of building
> > a distribution should be:
> >
> > 1. Build the sdist.
> > 2. Build wheels *from* that sdist.
> > 3. Check the built sdist and wheels.
> > 4. Upload the files once you've confirmed they are OK.
> >
> > The tools should make that as transparent as possible (I'm not averse
> > to a command that builds sdist and wheels together, but such a command
> > could easily use the sdist to build the wheels "behind the scenes")
> > and there may be special cases (incremental builds of wheels when a
> > full recompile is a significant cost) but those are quality of
> > implementation details.
>
> One extra task that I often need is the ability to separate bdist_ext
> from bdist_wheel, so that I can apply modifications to built modules
> (e.g. code signing) before packaging up the wheel.
>
> There's probably a way to insert this step using a setuptools extension
> or a setup.py hack, but it's actually most convenient to have two
> completely separate commands (or options) for building and packaging.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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