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Open Sam1320 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

fix seeming typo and add link to the correct term


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Sam1320 avatar Apr 30 '24 10:04 Sam1320

The phrasing is sub-optimal but it's correct: a build backend does indeed build an sdist or a wheel.

Good point. What about the phrasing in the last commit? I feel it is less ambiguous this way. I also removed the reference to "wheel" for clarity and also because its already inside the "Built Distribution" description. @webknjaz

Sam1320 avatar May 02 '24 10:05 Sam1320

I am not sure the build backends really do accept an sdist as input.

They don't. The frontends do the unpacking as a part of the ephemeral build environment provisioning and call the backends against that dir on disk. cibuildwheel does that, and build recently got this feature. Pip was the first frontend to implement this logic, I think.

webknjaz avatar May 15 '24 15:05 webknjaz