On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, at 19:07, Julian Smith wrote: > I was a little surprised to find out that one can't use pip to create > an sdist, but i'm a bit late to this party and it looks like there's > been plenty of discussion about this in the past.
There is now the (quite new) 'build' tool which can be used to make both sdists and wheels by working with a PEP 517 backend: https://pypi.org/project/build/ > I've come across a problem where an old pip-18.1 fails to install from > an sdist or wheel, with error: I'm surprised it fails on the wheels - how exactly are you using pip? If you're relying on PEP 517, then pip 18.1 is too old to install it from an sdist - PEP 517 support was added in 19.0 (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#id448 ). But that shouldn't be a problem for installing from a wheel that has already been made. 18.1 is over 2 years outdated, so I think it's reasonable to ask people to upgrade, but you may well still encounter people who have older versions, mostly where they've got it through a Linux distro package manager. Thomas -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/YTRTTRMK56KK4NHB2HGKXM77WXWSVN7W/
