[Distutils] Installing scripts

[Bob Kimble]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 04:51 pm, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:31 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
> > At least stick a .txt extension on text files users may want to read.
> >
>  > Does it also offend delicate non-Windows sensibilities, e.g., to see
>  > README.txt instead of README?  If it does, the issue is broader than
>  > just
>
> It doesn't bother me, but I can't speak for others.  It's not clear when
> .txt extensions should be added; things like the README are most useful
> when a distribution is unpacked.  That indicates the "sdist" command is a
> good candidate, but I don't know how often that's actually used (rather
> than just rolling a tarball from a CVS or Subversion export).  There's also
> not good metadata support for documentation files in general in distutils.
>
> It would be nice to improve that situation.  Again, we have cross-platform
> issues (CHM files on Windows, text files that need line-end normalization,
> and probably lots more).
>
>
>   -Fred

Why not include README and README.txt? I have seen that in some tarballs. 
Usually they're different files, but they're so small I can't imagine that it 
would matter if there were just two copies of the same file.

.... Bob