-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Finney wrote: > Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:02, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not advocating using the VCS to *generate the tarball*. I'm >>> talking about using the VCS to *determine what files to put in the >>> tarball*. >> What's the difference? > > The former is having the sdist process tell the VCS “generate a > tarball export of the versioned files” which isn't much use since the > result still isn't a complete sdist. > > The latter is having the sdist process query the VCS “tell me the set > of version files by name” and then using that information in the rest > of the normal sdist creation process. > > > David Cournapeau <[email protected]> writes: > >> Currently, using the vcs plugin does include everything as far as I >> know. So what do you have in mind ? > > That, in the presence of a VCS and in the absence of a ‘MANIFEST.in’ > file, the “create an sdist” procedure should query the VCS inventory > for the information it would otherwise get from the ‘MANIFEST.in’. > Thus making that file unnecessary in many cases that I care about.
In *any* case I know of: including non-VCS-controleld files in an sdist is an anti-usecase for me. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ2k51+gerLs4ltQ4RAjdQAJ0cURt1pAcGVrZseKTNZ+2OUcVDWwCgzw8q n7Pxy/CMbRUatp8WQkbpTzk= =HwNM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
