2009/12/24 <exar...@twistedmatrix.com>: [..] > > Release packages for Twisted are constructed using some extra file- finding > logic that sdist doesn't provide. Additionally, for years distutils was > seen as a blind alley, so we didn't bother to try to create a > distutils-friendly substitute. Partially because it seems that distutils > has turned a corner over the last year, we are actually (slowly, with > difficulty) working towards a more distutils-integrated solution (we're > going to try to override sdist with a command based on our existing custom > file-finding code). This may result in something we can use with "setup.py > upload" (but this isn't currently the primary goal, it would just be a happy > side effect).
That's quite a good news. Let me know if I can help somehow in that process. In any case I am interested in the problems you've had with sdist in order to improve it. Wether this happens in Distutils or in Distribute if it's too late for 2.7 Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
