On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> Ah-ha, this is useful. The reason this hasn't been considered, at >> least in my proposal, is that I think this is the first I've heard >> that there is anything that cares about what's in an sdist besides >> setup.py :-). > > Please know that OS distributions also very much care about the contents > of the sdist, because that's what the distributor claims is the > corresponding source for the distribution.
Well, uh. Yes. That's what makes it an "sdist" rather than a "". The question was what can you about an sdist (in terms of structure, metadata, etc.) besides "you can build something from it by calling setup.py". -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
