On 27 September 1999, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
Greg Ward writes:
explictly, you're welcome to do so! If you want automated help in doing so, may I suggest the 'find(1)' command? >smirk<
I don't think there's any equivalent for Windows without buying 3rd party addons (not an acceptable alternative). It would be easy to implement using os.path.walk(); I'm sure an interested Windows-bound reader of this group could contribute such a beast.
Hey, I was smirking when I said that. The whole point of having some wildcard support in the Distutils MANIFEST format is that people don't need to use 'find', or a separate "make_manifest" script to generate it: they just type a few lines and it works. You and Marc-André have come up with some clever ideas that will allow people to type even fewer lines in some circumstances, at the expense of more complexity in the code.
It's too early to say, probably: those of us dragging our feet need more experience with what you already have before we can say that it's absolutely required or you can say that it absolutely isn't.
Exactly -- I claim that the current MANIFEST syntax is excellent for generating a source distribution of the Distutils. It would also work quite well for the other software I've released in the past, whether it's a C library, a MATLAB toolbox, or Perl module distributions. It's certainly better than the MANIFEST format used by Perl's MakeMaker (all files explicitly listed, with the ExtUtils::MakeManifest module to help you generate it the first time -- good luck maintaining it). I hope it fits the style of other developers, but we'll have to wait and see on that. Hyper-defensively yours, Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913