[Distutils] unneeded warning about missing readme in case of rst

Hanno Schlichting hanno at hannosch.eu
Mon Jun 25 13:49:25 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
> warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README,
> README.txt
>
> The reason for the missing file is that it is called README.rst now because
> bitbucket and github pick up that extension. Is there something that can be
> done about this warning?

I think this got changed in distribute for version 0.6.27. From the changelog:

Distribute now recognizes README.rst as a standard, default readme file.

Not sure if this needs changes on the PyPi server end.

Hanno


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