On Fri, Aug 25, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > If it can't build a sdist then there's no opportunity for frontends to > fall back to sdist->wheel anyway, so that's not an issue[1]. > > It's only if sdist->wheel and direct wheel are both possible that > frontends have a choice, and I feel that we should mandate that > backends ensure that it doesn't matter which route the frontend > chooses.
Great, I think we're on the same page. I'm going to make a PR against the PEP while I still remember what page it is. ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig