[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/12/24 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>>> python setup.py pickup_files upload
>>>
>>> to upload the pre-built files; thereby you can upload files as source
>>> that had not been generated by sdist.
>>>
>>
>> That's why I've proposed to add a --dist-file option to the upload command,
>
> The tricky thing may be to find out what kind of file that is, so that
> option would somehow need two parameters.

Yes. I was considering something in these lines:

$ python setup.py upload --dist-file=sdist:/path/to/archive.tgz

where the files are suffixed by their format.

But that's just a first thought.

>
> Regards,
> Martin
>



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