-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Cournapeau wrote: > Buck wrote: >> I have no clue what you mean by 'sdists'. Is this a widely-known >> thing? >> > > sdist is the name of the distutils command - it just means distributing > a source tarball.
Nope, by "sdist" I mean the specific tarball generated by the 'sdist' command (PJE spelled out what is special about them). Manually-created source tarballs don't have the layout / metadata which makes automating their installation feasible. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com 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 iD8DBQFJ5h3w+gerLs4ltQ4RAjMUAJ0bG4aCjLVeC7J2czCbrcMQshxg1QCfexDG u0/T9gwas+IJeqN+4GsFcsM= =l29V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
