> > On Jun 16, 2017, at 11:08 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > (because the legacy setup.py > command errors out, because the build_sdist hook is missing, because > the build_sdist hook errors out...); probably falling back on > shutil.copytree.
Ah okay. This is where the disconnect was. I assumed if a project was using a PEP 517 build tool the result of a build_sdist failure (or a build_wheel failure) would be surfacing an error to the end user, not some sort of fallback. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig