#2073 Support attempts to build sdists for foreign platforms. Issue created by jsirois At least in the

pex --lock

case, Pex has a natural crease to attempt to build sdists into wheels, even for foreign platforms. In the "yolo" case, it can turn out the wheel does build successfully and is compatible with the foreign platform. This would allow the maximum possible set of platform and complete_platform builds to succeed. Only those that truly required pre-building the sdist into a wheel on the foreign platform would fail. The standard (old) non-lockfile

--platform

resolve relies on Pip which rejects sdists and fails the

pip download

. That case can only be fixed by using

--complete-platform

instead, but that is the direction folks should move anyhow. pantsbuild/pex

#2073 Support attempts to build sdists for foreign platforms. Issue closed as completed by jsirois pantsbuild/pex