[Distutils] Provisionally accepting PEP 517's declarative build system interface

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Mon, May 29, 2017, at 08:05 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> And what seems like it's really missing is a command to like...
> generate an sdist, build it into a wheel, and then leave them both
> somewhere twine can see them. Maybe 'pip release .'?

FWIW, we've just had a discussion over naming for similar functionality
in flit. We've ended up going with 'flit build' to build sdist+wheel,
and 'flit publish' to also upload them to PyPI.

Thomas