On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:02 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> A separate issue with "setup.py upload", though, is that it really wants >> one of two undesirable things: >> >> * the upload is done at the same time as the release package is generated >> * the release package is generated twice >> >> The former requires that proper credentials are available to whoever is >> creating the release package. Historically for Twisted, this isn't how >> things have been set up. We could probably deal with it, but it would >> be nice if it were not a requirement. > > It actually isn't. Upload will upload all files that are listed on > distribution.dist_files, which is a three-tuple of (command/filetype, > pyversion, filename). So if you somehow (e.g. with a new command, or > hard-coded) put stuff into dist_files, you could arrange for > > python setup.py pickup_files upload > > to upload the pre-built files; thereby you can upload files as source > that had not been generated by sdist. >
That's why I've proposed to add a --dist-file option to the upload command, Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
