[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have reworked the PEP a little bit with people feedback.
>
> It needs more feedback : http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0376.txt
>
> - install/uninstall script
>
>  I think the best solution is not to provide an install script since
> third-party tool do it. Furthermore,
>  there's already the simplest install script available today: you can
> run "python setup.py install" on a given package
>  so it gets installed.
>
>  So what about adding just a global uninstall feature, that
> uninstalls the files installed for a package, using the record
>  file, and let the third party tool have better features.
>
> - MANIFEST (SOURCES.txt)
>
>  Ronald pointed out that it was not necessary to have a MANIFEST file
> included if we are going to have a RECORD
>  file, as described in the PEP.
>
>  The MANIFEST (which in a way is equivalent to SOURCES.txt pip or
> easy_install adds) is the list of source files,
>  whereas the RECORD is the list if installed files (which might
> include more elements in case of compilations)
>
>  What would be the interest of having the list of source files in egg-info ?
>

There's another thing I have thought of, for the file list in egg-info
: make it configurable.

So let's:

- make the change in the "install_egg_info" command to create the
egg-info directory
- push the PKG-INFO file into it
- provide a new option for the command for people to point other files to add
- change the "install" command so it adds the RECORD file in this list

With that change, third-party tools will be able to configure
"install_egg_info" in order
to list extra files to add into the egg-info directory when the
package is installed,
whitout having to override that command.

The option would be a simple list of files path. Each path can be:

- a path relative to the root of the project that is being installed,
which allows you to provide a file that is present
  in your distribution tree
- an absolute path,

The name of each file will have to be normalized: all upper case with
no extensions.

Any opinions ?

Cheers
Tarek

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