Thomas Kluyver

Hi @dciborow, sorry it's taken me a while to look at this. I see what you're after, but this feels like the wrong approach to me. Flit is meant to...

In that case, the traceback clearly isn't helpful - there's a problem with the package we're uploading, not the uploader code. I'm wary of hiding tracebacks in general, though, because...

P.S. Sorry this one went unanswered for so long

I think that's reasonable, yeah. What we do for other scenarios like this is that the main CLI code catches a group of errors where we just want to display...

@amyreese did this in #630, for files called `version.py`, `_version.py` or `__version__.py`. :+1:

After a few more months thought on this, and a recent prompt from @pfmoore to revisit the question, my current plan is that the get-files-from-VCS behaviour will become optional for...

I see the attraction of that, but I don't think the switch belongs in the `pyproject.toml` file, or anywhere inside the project - whether you want this depends on the...

I'm going to close this now. I think we have a better bootstrapping story than when we were having the discussion, and I assume that in the last two years...

I'm going to close this now. The error described was separate, and an internet connection is not required - you will only see a harmless warning that it can't check...

I think I understand, and this is more or less expected, albeit not ideal. Flit tries to get the version number & docstring by static analysis first - i.e. parsing...