This is also a great time to be getting working setup-requires. A pip-compatible flit sdist could declare flit as a setup requirement, and its setup.py could translate install/bdist_wheel to the appropriate flit calls.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Xavier Fernandez <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I think the point was not to say that documentation is useless (and there >> is some: http://flit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) but that the >> code/implementation is much simpler than the combination of >> distutils/setuptools/bdist_wheel. >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Ian Cordasco <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> So for new python programmers (or newbie users in general) reading the >>> entire source of another package to understand it is a better experience? >>> > To put that in context, flit goes for less than 600 SLOC while > distutils+setuptools+wheel amount to over 20000 SLOC. At that ratio > arguments for distutils+setuptools+wheel documentation seem unreasonable. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
