[Distutils] option #1 plus download_url scraping

[Donald Stufft]

I'm interested in the use case. How are generating a release without running setup.py sdist?

On Jun 4, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> Like many of you, I got Donald's message about the changes to URLs for
> Cheeseshop packages.  My question is about the three options; I think I want a
> middle ground, but I'm interested to see why you will discourage me from that
> <wink>.
> 
> IIUC, option #1 is fine for packages hosted on PyPI.  But what if our packages
> are *also* hosted elsewhere, say for redundancy purposes, and that external
> location needs to be scraped?
> 
> Specifically, say I have a download_url in my setup.py.  I *want* that url to
> be essentially a wildcard or index page because I don't want to have to change
> setup.py every time I make a release (unless of course `setup.py sdist` did it
> for me).  I also can't add this url to the "Additional File URLs" page for my
> package because again I'd have to change it every time I do a release.
> 
> So the middle ground I think I want is: option #1 plus scraping from
> download_url, but only download_url.
> 
> Am I a horrible person for wanting this?  Is there a better way.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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