[Distutils] More documentation for setup meta-data

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Sat Mar 1 05:08:02 2003


A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:34:58AM +1100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
>>[cc'ed only to distutils now]
>>
>>On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 03:22 am, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>>Uhm, it doesn't work in Python 2.3... that's why I was asking.
> 
> Huh?  I thought I checked all the relevant bits in before 2.3alpha2,
> and it seems to work for me.  (It wasn't in 2.3alpha1.)  MAL, when you
> say "it doesn't work", what do you mean?

Well, if you pass download_url="something" to setup() then
you get an error saying that this is an unknown parameter.

Unless I have misunderstood something, that was the intended
purpose of download_url, right ? (and it should then end
up in the meta information just like the classifiers)

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