19th October 2021 - Link Blog
Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directly (via) Paul Ganssle explains why you shouldn’t use “python setup.py command” any more. I’ve mostly switched to pip and pytest and twine but I was still using “python setup.py sdist”—apparently the new replacement recipe for that is “python -m build”.
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