Re: [Distutils] flit adapter for the current sdist format

2015-10-29 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Thanks Daniel, that's interesting to see. For flit, I don't see a major benefit in generating sdists - for pure Python packages, universal wheels are simpler and install quicker. I'd really like to improve installing directly from a source tree, such as a VCS checkout. To do that, any adapter woul

[Distutils] flit adapter for the current sdist format

2015-10-28 Thread Daniel Holth
OK, so I wanted to see what it would take to create current-format sdists, defined as anything that has a setup.py that pip can install by running said setup.py. The following script takes a flit package (in the current directory and builds a pip-installable sdist. Tested against https://github.com