On 17 July 2013 20:39, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jul 17, 2013, at 08:34 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > >>I imagined that distro packaging tools would end up using the wheel as >>an intermediate format when building a deb from a source deb. > > Do you mean, the distro would download the wheel or that it would build it > during the build step for the archive? Probably not the former, as any binary > blobs in a wheel would both violate policy and likely be inappropriate for all > the platforms we build for.
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. Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
