On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:28:48 -0400 Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In any case, sdists being apt for human consumption is an important > > feature IMHO. > > > > I don't think so. Remember in my footnote I mentioned that I wasn't using VCS > to mean literally "something checked into a VCS", but rather the more > traditional (outside of Python) "source release" concept. This could be a > simple tarball that just has the proper, for human consumption, files in it > or it could be a VCS checkout, or it could just be some files sitting on disk.
But why use two different formats for "source release" and "sdists"? Currently sdists fit the assumptions for a source release, why introduce some complexity and have the users deal with separate concepts (with all the confusion that will inevitably ensue)? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
