On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: [..] >> Note that it wouldn't take long to override the upload command so it works >> independantly from any other *dist command. >> >> I could even add a --dist-file option to it so you can point an >> existing archive to push at PyPI, >> so running sdist or another *dist command wouldn't be mandatory anymore > > The advantage of sdist is that the metadata (PKG-INFO; .egg-info/*.txt) is > automatically included in the source distribution. For a manually generated > source distribution, this is not always the case. Consequently, one is > forced to run the `egg_info` command ..something that is unacceptable if you > do not want to run Python code in a server that simply mirrors PyPI.
For the Twisted case, we are talking about the very same archive that is downloaded by the installers from their websites, so its just a matter of uploaded an existing archive. What you are referring to is more likely to be QA controls, and running sdist doesn't really prevent from uploading low-QA packages. The new check command in Distutils (that is run before register or sdist is called for example) is the place where we can add QA controls > > It would be much interesting to hear arguments for why `sdist` is not suited > for Twisted releases and see if it can be fixed. It's orthogonal to having a standalone upload command, but I agree it's interesting to know. -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
