On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> But as I said in my response to Nathaniel, it may be that all that is >> needed is some context in the PEP explaining how we require[1] people >> to upload source to PyPI in the new world where we support build >> systems which don't have a "sdist" command like setuptools does. >> >> Paul >> >> [1] I say "require" in the sense of "you have to follow these rules if >> pip is to be able to use your source", not "you must upload source" - >> although I hope that the number of people actually preferring to *not* >> include source in their PyPI uploads is vanishingly small... > > Don't underestimate the number of people who don't wish to put source in > PyPI. Especially, don't rely merely on hope that such numbers remain > vanishingly small. > > After all, as you may recall from the discussion in 2014 [0], there are > core Python members who wish PyPI had remained an index only, with > distributions allowed to have *no* files necessarily hosted at PyPI. > > It seems reasonable to infer that their preferences are shared by > others, and some people would wish to avoid putting source for a > distribution on PyPI if that were to become easier. > > > [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-May/024224.html
This may or may not be the case, but it's an argument against allowing wheels on PyPI, not an argument against a system that makes it possible for more people to put sdists on PyPI. And it's the latter that's been under discussion here... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
