On 17 Jul, 2013, at 17:46, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> I'm going to be pushing an update to one of my projects to PyPI this week >> and so I figured I could use this opportunity to help with patches to the >> User Guide's packaging tutorial. >> >> But to do that I wanted to ask what the current best practices are. >> >> * Are we even close to suggesting wheels for source distributions? > > No, wheels don't replace source distributions at all. They just let > you install something without having to have whatever built the wheel > from its sdist. It is currently nice to have them available. > > I'd like to see an ambitious person begin uploading wheels that have > no traditional sdist.
Do you mean an sdist without a setup.py? That will likely take some time, for the time being projects will still need a setup.py that just prints information on how to build them (or bootstraps the actual wheel building tool). Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
