[Distutils] Moving distribute_setup.py

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 2/14/13 8:21 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>> On 2/14/13 6:32 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>>>> Hey
>>>>
>>>> As Marc-André suggested, it would be a good thing to move the
>>>> bootstrapping
>>>> file to
>>>> :https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute_setup.py
>>> +1
>>>
>>> I need to do something similar for buildout bootstrap files.
>>> How are you accomplishing this?
>>
>> By POSTing a multipart/form-data, like what the upload command does for
>> sdists :
>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/0f827775f7b7/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py#l68
>>
>> I can write a small script that does it  (bascially rip off
>> upload.upload_file() and remove the part about the metadata)
>>
>> We could also write a custom sdist that does this, with an extra_dist_files,
>> but oh well.. :)
> Hm.  I just tried to do this with ez_setup.py for setuptools, and
> PyPI's complaining that a .py file isn't a valid distribution.  (I'm
> using the web interface, not the upload command, but same basic idea.)
>
> AFAICT, we'll need the PyPI admins to implement support for .py
> uploads for this to work.
Oh you are right, I have not noticed that,

we need to add *.py here: 
https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi/src/f18ce0fbe947c1ce778761ea81d6704572cebb24/webui.py?at=default#cl-48

Will poke Catalog-sig


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