[Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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).

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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