Hi Greg, I am reading the distutils documentation and I would like to give some feedback. Generally speaking the documentation is pretty good but there two or three minor issues. First of all, the simple example described at http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/simple-example.html is not that good: if I try to run it as it is, I get a few error messages, since some required metadata are missing. However to discover what are the required metadata, I have to go at http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/meta-data.html, which, BTW, does not list all the metadata. To discover the full list I had to look at the source code, at the DistributionMetadata class.
In particular, http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/meta-data.html should list the platforms metadata, which is not required, but if you don't give it the PKG-INFO file will have an ugly "Platform: UNKNOWN" entry. I haven't yet finished the reading yet, so I could have additional feedback in a short while. BTW, I appreciate very much your work, including optparse and quixote and your documentation style ;) Keep the good work going, Michele P.S. the address in the example http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/setup-script.html ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) does NOT work! _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
