On 17 July 2013 19:46, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Daniel Holth wrote: >> >>I'd like to see an ambitious person begin uploading wheels that have >>no traditional sdist. > > You're not getting rid of sdists are you? > > Please note that without source distributions (preferably .tar.gz) your > package will never get distributed on a Linux distro. > > Maybe the keyword here is "traditional" though.
Yeah, I think what Daniel means is that the sdist->wheel transformation could be done by a tool unlike distutils and setuptools. The sdist as supplied would not be something that could be directly installed with 'python setup.py install' but it could be turned into a wheel by bento/waf/yaku/scons etc. > In that case, keep in mind > that at least in Debian and its derivatives, we have a lot of tools that make > it pretty trivial to package something setup.py based from PyPI. If/when that > goes away, it will be more difficult to get new package updates, until the > distro's supporting tools catch up. I imagined that distro packaging tools would end up using the wheel as an intermediate format when building a deb from a source deb. Would that not make things easier long-term? In the short term, you can expect that whatever solution people use is likely to be convertible to a traditional sdist in some straight-forward way e.g. 'bentomaker sdist'. Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
