Hi, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> skribis:
> Wheels are (as far as I understand) binary distributions, so they ought > to contain everything, that gets put into site-packages. I don't think > they make for good source packages. In particular, the jaxlib wheel > contains a bunch of shared objects and almost none of the source that > one can see on Github. Uh, worse than I thought. > Instead of erroring out, we could try to check whether the homepage > points to a git forge and try to generate a git-reference from that. Sounds good. I suspect special-casing github.com would already catch most cases… Problem is that we would not know which tag to use, unless we go to great lengths to guess that. > Failing this, we might want to set source to something, that produces > an error when read or when used as a variable, similar to how unknown > licenses are handled. Right; not failing seems preferable. Thanks, Ludo’.
