On 2014-09-30 07:26:32 -0400 (-0400), Donald Stufft wrote: [...] > I don’t personally believe it makes sense for a source > distribution to have a build number. [...]
I'm becoming less and less convinced it actually *is* a source distribution any more. My constant interaction with downstream Linux distro packagers shows a growing disinterest in consuming release "tarballs" of software, that they would generally prefer to pull releases directly from tags in the project's revision control systems instead. Couple this with the fact that setup.py sdist can (and often does) include autogenerated content in its output which the packagers would rather strip or regenerate themselves, and I'm of the opinion that the tarballs I create are only for PyPI/pip consumption any longer. This effectively makes them a channel-specific packaging format rather than a generally reusable release source artifact. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
