On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 11:56 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: > here is a new way to package modules for Python: > https://github.com/takluyver/flit > > It means that something packaged using it doesn't use a setup.py or some > such, but a flit.ini ; see for example: > https://github.com/jupyter/testpath > > I'm not sure how to package something like this (and testpath is a > depends for IPython's tests), so I think asking here is better.
By the way, I am also upstream for flit, and I'm prepared to help build some tooling to use it for distro packaging. I know it will cause some inconvenience in the short term because there's infrastructure around setup.py packaging, but ultimately I think that having declarative metadata should be an advantage. Thomas
