Ben Finney wrote: > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> It doesn't make sense to have the list of the files in .svn or .hg >> files. for your package. >> > > Again, why not? If I'm using a VCS for my source files, then the VCS > is the Single Point of Truth for the inventory of source files. >
depending on your definition of sources, it is not. The VCS is there to track a project, but sdist is a *distribution* mean. It is a packaged version of your software - simple, but packaged nonetheless. There has to be a (potential) difference between what goes in sdist and what is recorded in the VCS. Python packaging is the only tool I am aware which say both are equal. Specially with DVCS, I would think using the VCS for sdist makes really little sense - if you want the whole sources, just use clone/branch/checkout, or the automatically generated tarball as available from most web tools (gitweb, hgweb, etc...). The duplication argument could be made the other way: why duplicating with sdist what the VCS offers you ? cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
