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Update sdist specification to refer to PEP 517 (pypa#472)
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source/specifications/distribution-formats.rst

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Source distribution format
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The source distribution format (``sdist``) is not currently formally defined.
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Instead, its format is implicitly defined by the behaviour of the
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standard library's ``distutils`` module when executing the ``setup.py sdist``
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command.
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The accepted style of source distribution format based
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on ``pyproject.toml``, defined in :pep:`518` and adopted by :pep:`517`
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has not been implemented yet.
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There is also the legacy source distribution format, implicitly defined by
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the behaviour of ``distutils`` module in the the standard library,
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when executing ``setup.py sdist``.
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Binary distribution format
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