Hey, I'm just glad that `twine upload dist/*` with the .asc files in that
directory did the right thing. Something to mention if you ever decide to
update the docs.


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yea it does that too :) I was just being too lazy to type the docs out
> again :)
>
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
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>>> 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
>>
>>
>
>
> -----------------
> Donald Stufft
> PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372
> DCFA
>
>
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