On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 08:32 +1100, Brian May wrote: > Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> writes: > > > Like Barry, I've never had an issue with upstreams fixing their MANIFEST.in > > so > > that the sdist is complete when I point out the issue. > > I have had some people who do argue that sdist is an installation > format, not a source format - if you want the source use github.
Same here. > I think most of them eventually do change, however it makes me a bit > uneasy that maybe they might be right. Until this thread was started, I had never questioned the "canonicalness" of PyPI releases either. > As a result, some of my recent packages I have used github, rather > then try to "fix" things on PyPI. That way I can be sure that the > build will always be consistant, and not suddenly and unexpectedly > drop files. Do you get rid of the useless dotfiles (gitignore, ci settings, tox...) or leave them alone then? Ghis
