On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I meant the latter. The source deb would comprise the sdist (that may > or may not be "traditional") and other distro files. The author of the > sdist designed it with the intention that it could be turned into a > wheel in some way (perhaps not the traditional one). So the natural > way to build it is to use the author's intended build mechanism, end > up with a wheel, and then convert that to an installable deb. As far as I know that's not how distros package things. They'll take the source and package it into a source package for their platform, and then their build machines will build binary packages for all the archectures they support. I don't suspect the distros to use Wheels at all. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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