New submission from Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org>: In the current packaging module, the PEP 376 .dist-info directory is generated at install time. It should be split into two phases, build_distinfo and install_distinfo, to support at least two use cases:
- the develop command, which needs access to .dist-info - the resources API (packaging.database.get_file), which is intended to work from an uninstalled codebase too. The normal directory to put the generated files would be the build directory; however, setuptools’ egg_info command generates the file in the same directory as the setup.py file. I’d prefer we avoid it in packaging, for consistency with other build_* commands, and to avoid that every project has to put “*.dist-info” in their VCS ignore file, but I don’t know if there is a technical reason that constrains setuptools to do so. ---------- assignee: eric.araujo components: Distutils2 keywords: gsoc messages: 137842 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, higery priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Add build_distinfo command to packaging type: feature request versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12279> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
