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sdist takes ~4MB of space, is neglected by PyPA, and is a bad experience for both the developer and the user. PyAV does not have universal support for every arch, and removing source builds in PyPI does not change that.
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Please roll this back, this is really dodgy. Some users have an explicit policy of not trusting binary wheels and they should absolutely be able to "pip install"! |
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Hmm, looking through recent changes and flagged this one as suspicious too. We use the pypi sources for conda-forge because often, different packages will have "generated files" that get uploaded to pypi but are not included in the github tags. https://github.com/conda-forge/av-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml#L8 I'm also suspicious of the claim:
People can in fact use the source, and this was recommended for exotic platforms:
It would be good if you gave some time for downstream to comment on these changes. I've been quite active and I would have been able to give give this feedback before you pressed merge... |
Retracted. jlaine is not talking to me at all. I've revered all objectionable changed, so I'm releasing now. |
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sdist takes ~4MB of space, is neglected by PyPA, and is a bad experience for both the developer and the user. PyAV does not have universal support for every arch, and removing source builds in PyPI does not change that.