[Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller@python.net
14 Nov 2002 20:48:49 +0100

> I have more the impression, that people release .tar.gz files > containing a distutils setup.py script, but no PKG-INFO, so the > tarball isn't created by distutils sdist command. PyChecker is such an > example, IIRC.

This is correct. I do release PyChecker as a .tar.gz which contains a setup.py, but no PKG-INFO. Should there be one? I don't use setup.py to create the .tar.gz.

I only noticed this (and your package is not the only one) when I worked on a PEP 243 (?, package upload mechinism) implementation where uploaded files would be scanned for the PKG-INFO metadata.

I've never found the proper way to make releases when I looked. But that was a long time ago.

I normally don't use Linux, but does 'python setup.py sdist' not work there?

Thomas