[Distutils]Re: Introducing XAR - SquashFS based mountable executables - Calling OS/Distro Maintainers

2018-07-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 July 2018 at 06:51, Cooper Ry Lees wrote: > Hi distutils, > > Today Facebook Open Sourced a competitor to PEX and other zip based > distribution methods for Python (and potentially other languages). Basically > it's claim to fame is start up time for large modules being similar to > regular

[Distutils]Re: pypi/twine complains about license

2018-07-13 Thread Cooper Ry Lees
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,

[Distutils]Introducing XAR - SquashFS based mountable executables - Calling OS/Distro Maintainers

2018-07-13 Thread Cooper Ry Lees
Hi distutils, Today Facebook Open Sourced a competitor to PEX and other zip based distribution methods for Python (and potentially other languages). Basically it's claim to fame is start up time for large modules being similar to regular on file system modules due to extracting on read via Squa

[Distutils]Re: pypi/twine complains about license

2018-07-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 08:25 Cooper Ry Lees 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 in