Thomas Heller wrote: >>>I have more the impression, that people release .tar.gz files >>>containing a distutils setup.py script, but no PKG-INFO, so the >>>tarball isn't created by distutils sdist command. PyChecker is such an >>>example, IIRC. >> >>This is correct. I do release PyChecker as a .tar.gz which contains a >>setup.py, but no PKG-INFO. Should there be one? I don't use setup.py >>to create the .tar.gz. > > > I only noticed this (and your package is not the only one) when I > worked on a PEP 243 (?, package upload mechinism) implementation > where uploaded files would be scanned for the PKG-INFO metadata. > > >>I've never found the proper way to make releases when I looked. >>But that was a long time ago. >> > > > I normally don't use Linux, but does 'python setup.py sdist' not work > there? It works just fine. All you have to watch out for is to provide a proper MANIFEST.in or MANIFEST file which tells distutils which files to include in the source distribution (command sdist). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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