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

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 02:57 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> My feeling is that in the current context we're talking about "minimal
> set of files needed to build the wheel". That's not precisely a sdist
> (because it ignores additional files that the user might want to
> include like README, COPYRIGHT, or tests) so doesn't satisfy the use
> case for something like "twine sdist" - but I don't see how we can do
> that without getting sucked into the full "sdist 2.0" debate, which
> really is off-topic for this PEP.

I would be fine with specifying a hook to copy only the files needed to
build the wheel, but if we do that, let's not call it 'sdist' or
anything that suggests that.