Cannot create a wheel from an sdist

[Themanwithoutaplan]

Because I want exclude quite a lot of files from the dist I always create an sdist. I haven't worked with wheel very often but have previously managed to create a wheel from the sdist but not today.

I have created an sdist zip (being able to work with .tgz would be nicht, but okay)

This is the error message I get:

(openpyxl) Fuchsia:openpyxl charlieclark$ python setup.py sdist --formats=zip
(openpyxl) Fuchsia:openpyxl charlieclark$ wheel convert dist/openpyxl-2.5.10.zip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/bin/wheel", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/lib/python3.5/site-packages/wheel/cli/__init__.py", line 82, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/lib/python3.5/site-packages/wheel/cli/__init__.py", line 35, in convert_f
    convert(args.files, args.dest_dir, args.verbose)
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/lib/python3.5/site-packages/wheel/cli/convert.py", line 267, in convert
    conv(installer, dest_dir)
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/lib/python3.5/site-packages/wheel/cli/convert.py", line 171, in wininst2wheel
    info = parse_wininst_info(os.path.basename(path), egginfo_name)
  File "/Users/charlieclark/Projects/openpyxl/lib/python3.5/site-packages/wheel/cli/convert.py", line 128, in parse_wininst_info
    raise ValueError("Egg info filename %s is not valid" % (egginfo_name,))
ValueError: Egg info filename openpyxl-2.5.10/openpyxl/openpyxl.egg-info/PKG-INFO is not valid

Maybe it's just me being stupid but I really don't see why this is happening.

[agronholm]

The wheel convert command only converts eggs or wininst installers into wheels, not sdists. Are you sure you've read the documentation? Why are you not using setup.py bdist_wheel in the first place?

[Themanwithoutaplan]

I can't use bdist_wheel because it doesn't respect the manifest and is creating a wheel 4 times the size of the sdist.

[agronholm]

I'm closing this as invalid due to incorrect use of wheel convert, but if you can point me to your project, I can take a look and offer suggestions. One suggestion I can offer right away is the new wheel pack command which you can use to repack the wheel after you've trimmed the end result of bdist_wheel.