Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-29 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:39 AM 11/29/2008 -0800, Brian Cameron wrote: This has already happened to at least one Linux distribution that I'm aware of; they had been stripping out the .egg-info and it then caused more problems for their users than it was worth. I'm aware of three linux distributions that used to st

Re: [Distutils] Another newbie question regarding setup.py metadata

2008-11-29 Thread Peter Bengtsson
2008/11/29 Tres Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Peter Bengtsson wrote: >> Sorry if this is a stupid question but what I have done wrong to not >> get my description and metadata to appear after the upload on >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/slimmer/ >

Re: [Distutils] Another newbie question regarding setup.py metadata

2008-11-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Bengtsson wrote: > Sorry if this is a stupid question but what I have done wrong to not > get my description and metadata to appear after the upload on > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/slimmer/ > > The setup.py looks like this:: > > version = '0.1

Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-29 Thread Brian Cameron
This has already happened to at least one Linux distribution that I'm aware of; they had been stripping out the .egg-info and it then caused more problems for their users than it was worth. I'm aware of three linux distributions that used to strip out .egg-info files and then changes their p

Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-29 Thread zooko
On Nov 28, 2008, at 21:22 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: This has already happened to at least one Linux distribution that I'm aware of; they had been stripping out the .egg-info and it then caused more problems for their users than it was worth. I'm aware of three linux distributions that used