On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: > > On 2010-03-29, at 12:32 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar > <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: > [..] > > +1 > > I presume sdist too, if generated with 'python setup.py sdist', will contain > > this .dist-info directory? > > I don't think so, because part of the files are generated at installation > time. > > Do you have something in mind ? > > Yes, I read metadata of source distributions by trying to find the PKG-INFO > files and extracting at least Name and Version from it (using filenames is > unreliable -- eg: "latest.zip"). I thought that due to environment markers > and such changes hinting static metadata, the source distribution will at > least have METADATA (formerly PKG-INFO) in it. Will that be the case with > distutuils2? I know that distutils/setuptools includes PKG-INFO.
I guess we could generate METADATA through sdist but not the other files. I am a bit worried of having a partial .dist-info directory though, not sure why Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
