On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, at 01:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > If we have a consensus here that "build a sdist and build a wheel from > it" is an acceptable/viable main route for pip to generate wheels > (with "just ask the backend" as fallback) then I'm OK with not > bothering with an "ask the backend to build a wheel out of tree" > option. My recollection of the history was that there was some > resistance in the past to pip going down the "build via sdist" route, > but if that's now considered OK in this forum, then I'm fine with > assuming that either I was mistaken or things have changed.
I think I was one of the people arguing against going via an sdist. The important point for me is that an sdist is not a requirement for installing from source - it's ok by me if it tries building an sdist first and then falls back to building a wheel directly. Since flit generates no intermediate artifacts, though, it's not an informative data point for where they should be placed. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
