<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2010-03-29, at 12:32 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar<br><<a href="mailto:sridharr@activestate.com">sridharr@activestate.com</a>> wrote:<br>[..]<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">+1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I presume sdist too, if generated with 'python setup.py sdist', will contain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this .dist-info directory?<br></blockquote><br>I don't think so, because part of the files are generated at installation time.<br><br>Do you have something in mind ?</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I read metadata of source distributions by trying to find the PKG-INFO files and extracting at least Name and Version from it (using filenames is unreliable -- eg: "latest.zip"). I thought that due to environment markers and such changes hinting static metadata, the source distribution will at least have METADATA (formerly PKG-INFO) in it. Will that be the case with distutuils2? I know that distutils/setuptools includes PKG-INFO.</div><div><br></div><div>-srid</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>