As was suggested at some point, I have added a build_sdist hook to my PR, with the following details:
- A brief definition of the minimal requirements of an sdist. - I have limited the definition to gzipped tarballs. Zip files also work as sdists, but we're moving towards standardising on tarballs, so I think it's simplest to require that of PEP-517 compliant tools. - The build_sdist hook must be defined, but may not always work (e.g. it may depend on a VCS) - The prepare_build_files hook is optional, and in its absence, frontends can use build_sdist and extract the files to create a build directory. - Backends (like flit) where building an sdist has extra requirements should define prepare_build_files. https://github.com/python/peps/pull/277/files _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
