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Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

From	Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules
Date	2015-09-26 01:30 +0200
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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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Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-19 09:00 +0200
  Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-19 10:00 +0200
    Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-19 10:10 +0200
      Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-19 13:30 +0200
    Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-19 18:40 +0200
      Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-20 13:10 +0200
        Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-24 12:40 +0200
          Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk> - 2015-09-24 13:20 +0200
            Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-26 01:30 +0200
              Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 01:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-26 02:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 05:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-28 00:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-26 11:40 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 17:20 +0200

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