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

Reinout van Rees reinout at vanrees.org
Mon Jun 25 14:00:10 CEST 2012


On 25-06-12 13:49, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! Yep, that's it. I somehow had an older distribute in my 'tools' 
virtualenv.



Reinout

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