[Distutils] PEP 517: Open questions around artifact export directories

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jun 12, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017, at 10:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> It’s pretty hard to screw up zipping up a directory.
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> If you want reproducible builds, it's very easy to screw up, and your response doesn't inspire confidence that frontends will do it carefully. But I see flit mainly as something you use directly to build and publish wheels, and these hooks of secondary interest for e.g. installing from a VCS URL. So I'll keep my zip-archive-building code in flit, and let frontend tools duplicate the part of that functionality they care about.
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> It's also, of course, hard to screw up unzipping to a directory. ;-)
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Sure! I’m not advocating for unpacked wheels because I think either one is harder or easier to screw up, but rather because it allows the front ends more flexibility in how they use the wheels and allows us to avoid doing work, making the process involved faster for everyone.

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Donald Stufft



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