On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 09:40, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> >> "Lower system"? What would that be? This is about if we should support >> getting a file list from the VCS or not to determine what files should >> go in a sdist. > > We can argue all day long
Possibly. I can't say we are arguing though. You are just saying that you don't agree, but you still come with no arguments for your standpoint or against mine. It's obvious that you have made up your mind, but you don't know why. You may be correct, but to convince me you need concrete arguments. Not fuzzy broad statements that you fail to explain. > but since there is a disagreement, there is > only two issues: either someone decides for one behavior or the other, > or we acknowledge our difference and decide on less ambitious goals to > build other tools above. Less ambitious goals? We are discussing if the VCS should be a part of determining the list of files that goes into a distribution or not. This is not in any way ambitious. You claim that it under no circumstance should be a part of it, but you have no arguments for that standpoint. I claim that it is a good and reasonable way to determine which files should be included, unless the files are otherwise specified. How can we have any "less ambitions" goals than this? >> I have a hard time envisioning anything "lower" than >> that. > > Why so ? Few packaging system use the VCS as the lower system to know > what goes in a distribution, most of them (regardless of the platform: > windows, unix, mac os x) uses something more low level than this at the > implementation level. I totally fail to see how this is in any way "lower", and repeat my question: "Lower system"? What would that be? What is a "lower system" in determining a file list? I suggested a three step process: 1. If there is explicit definitions, use that. 2. If not, then if there is a VCS, use that. 3. If not, include all files except those extensions that are known to be temporary files. Where in this is there a "lower level"? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
