[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 29 Sep 2014, at 15:21, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> On September 29, 2014 at 8:54:26 AM, Wichert Akkerman (wichert at wiggy.net) wrote:
>> On 29 Sep 2014, at 13:58, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Right, this is my perspective as well. The point that the wheel format already includes a build ordering field was significant because that file naming scheme has an official specification.
>>> 
>>> Other commands like bdist_egg, bdist_dumb and bdist_wininst aren't as strict about the expected file names, although it would be good to define a suggested optional build numbering convention at least for bdist_egg, such that easy_install will do the right thing, even if the full source level version number isn't bumped.
>>> 
>> This is just as relevant for sdists as well. It is quite common to see a broken release due to a missing or wrong MANIFEST.in.
>> 
> 
> Test them prior to uploading them.

You can make the exact same argument about binary distributions, so I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here? Mistakes are made everywhere - I’m just trying to point out that a packaging error is not unique to binary distributions.

Wichert.

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