Yes! bdist_wheel is supposed to be how you install packages built with setuptools on platforms without setuptools, to give you time to write its replacement.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 15:39 Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > > I personally don't see much advantage in the "dump everything in one > > file" philosophy. so from a personal POV I'd prefer setuptools' config > > to remain in setup.cfg, but if they have reasons for wanting to move, > > the PEP allows them that option. > > I've come across quite a few people who want to avoid 'clutter' in the top > level of the repository. By the time you've got packaging config, test > config, CI config, editor config and so on, I can see where they're coming > from. I think all this mass of different files can also be confusing to > newcomers. So I try to avoid creating extra files where it's easy to do so. > > But in the case of setuptools, I wouldn't push for it to use > pyproject.toml. It will have to continue supporting setup.py and setup.cfg > forever, so all you could do is add yet another place that metadata might > live, making it more complicated to understand. > > Of course, I'm biased, because if setuptools uses pyproject.toml, flit > looks kind of redundant. ;-) > > Thomas > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/N6SW5IMDROORV7ZZZ3GBMQQAYODOSFAV/ >
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