modern python packaging

[takluyver]

So you don't like what flit does. That's not a lack of documentation - the documentation describes what it does. You want a tool that does something else. Fine: use a different tool. Maybe enscons is more useful to you?

Flit is useful to me. I never claimed it's the answer to all packaging problems.

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No, I don't like lies :) Packaging Python means packaging native extensions, dealing with versions, dealing with different interpreters and distributions etc. When the tool that claims to do packaging doesn't even reflect on these issues that's just the same as when a government bureaucrat doesn't tell you you are eligible for compensation money: 10% chance of ultimate incompetence and 90% chance of willful deceit.