Well, the docs gave the gpg command to use and made the good point that doing so meant not typing your GPG passphrase into a strange app. Anyway, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/caniusepython3 is now live and has both an sdist and universal wheel which are both signed with my creaky GPG key.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > Twine just uses gpg like distutils upload does. It’ll even do the signing > for you if you want. > > twine upload -s dist/* > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I'll at least use what twine supports. =) > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So I'm trying to be a good Python project owner for >> https://github.com/brettcannon/caniusepython3 so that means wanting to >> produce a universal wheel. While reading up on exactly what is needed I >> noticed there is `wheel keygen` which feeds `wheel sign`. >> >> But what exactly is the keygen producing? I'm assuming it's a >> private/public key but there is nothing about where those keys are stored, >> if I should keep them when I change machines, etc. And if this is PKI then >> I would assume I would want to get my public key signed by others in some >> web-of-trust to make sure that the signing is more than just a content >> hash. I do have a public/private GPG key from years ago when I tried to do >> the right thing and got it signed at PyCon, but once again the wheel docs >> don't say anything about GPG or reusing keys, etc. The wheel docs are so >> non-committal it makes it feel like that whatever `gpg keygen` produces is >> really not some performance shortcut and not really something to care about >> perpetuating the output of. >> >> So am I missing something or is `wheel keygen` just an optimization? >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> >> >> In my opinion Wheel key signing is pointless. It has no trust model based >> with it and it’s Wheel specific. Right now there’s not a lot of benefit to >> signing but I would use the gpg signing that’s build into distutils. It’s >> generic and works across all file types. >> >> ----------------- >> Donald Stufft >> PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 >> DCFA >> >> > > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > >
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