On 29 Sep 2014, at 13:58, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, this is my perspective as well. The point that the wheel format
> already includes a build ordering field was significant because that file
> naming scheme has an official specification.
>
> Other commands like bdist_egg, bdist_dumb and bdist_wininst aren't as strict
> about the expected file names, although it would be good to define a
> suggested optional build numbering convention at least for bdist_egg, such
> that easy_install will do the right thing, even if the full source level
> version number isn't bumped.
>
This is just as relevant for sdists as well. It is quite common to see a broken
release due to a missing or wrong MANIFEST.in.
Wichert.
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