Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules
On September 25, 2015 at 7:24:30 PM, Paul Wise (pabs@debian.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
>
> > That's my point ;-). From our upstream point of view, it's not a bug
> > that the distributions we put on PyPI contain generated/bundled files -
> > we do it that way deliberately, so that end users can install without
> > needing Javascript developer tools to build those files. If you want a
> > pure source tarball without generated files, that's available from
> > Github.
>
> Why are end users using source packages instead of binary packages and
> then complaining that the source tarballs aren't ready-to-run binary
> packages?
>
Because the way Python packaging currently is and historically has been, binary packages are not something that is widely available or viable.
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