Ahhh - this is true, good point. I thought I did read somewhere that LICENSE was included by default. distutils?
Maybe I should open an issue with setuptools and see what people there think as I've hit this issue a lot, especially as wheel always wants a LICENSE file. Cooper > On Jul 13, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 08:25 Cooper Ry Lees <m...@cooperlees.com > <mailto:m...@cooperlees.com>> wrote: > Hi all, > > Side note / side track / I've noticed this recently. Was adding LICENSE file > ever a default for distutils/setuptools to add too sdsists? Has that changed > recently? > > I build wheels from sdists from PyPI (to link with my own internal versions > of C libraries etc. - I don't like to trust binaries from the Internet - Call > me old fashioned) and sometimes this fails as there is no LICENSE file (wheel > requires a LICENSE). So to fix this, I go fork the project and add the > MANIFEST.in and include the file. If this never was, or was before, how do we > feel about making LICENSE file included by default into sdists? > > That would first require there to be a standard for sdists. :) If you are > proposing specifically for setuptools then that's a separate question. > > -Brett > > > P.s. If I should make a separate thread please say so. > > Cooper > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > <mailto:distutils-sig@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > <mailto:distutils-sig-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > <https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/> > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/DTD2FP3F7ZVLQN4JBUTQ3KRCSN35CWPL/ > > <https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/DTD2FP3F7ZVLQN4JBUTQ3KRCSN35CWPL/>
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