[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:51 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 06:01 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> >> > I don't see any point to the normalization.
>> >>
>> >> To avoid different naming conventions like:
>> >>
>> >> PKG-INFO, requires.txt, SOURCES.txt
>> >
>> > And the problem with that is...?
>>
>> inconsistency, but right, it makes no sense if any file/dir can be added
>> there.
>>
>> What about SOURCES.txt btw ? What is the reason to add it ?
>
> It's for source distributions.  It allows them to be able to rebuild an
> identical source distribution in the absence of source control metadata.
>
> It's not really necessary for the installation process, although it's used
> to figure out which files to install if you use include_package_data=True.
>

Any particular reason to call it "SOURCES.txt"  ?

Or we can call it MANIFEST (with '/'-separated relative path)


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