On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:11:56 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Being a Windows user, I hadn't caught the parallel between > Wheel-Source wheel and RPM-Source RPM (is there also a similar > deb-source deb pair?) > > But if the concept works for people with a Linux background, I'm OK with it.
The "source RPM" concept is actually confusing since, IIUC, a "source RPM" is nothing like a normal RPM (i.e. you can't install it using the "rpm" tool). It should actually be called a "RPM source" (again, IIUC). > (My main concern is that end users commonly make requests to projects > saying "please provide wheels". I don't want that nice simple concept > to get confused, if we can avoid it). +1 Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
