[Distutils] option #1 plus download_url scraping

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 04, 2013, at 04:46 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:

>On 06/04/2013 04:30 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

>> I'm interested in the use case. How are generating a release without
>> running setup.py sdist?
>
>I think you misunderstood (the way Barry described it wasn't completely
>clear). If I'm reading it correctly, "I don't want to have to change
>setup.py every time I make a release" means "I don't want to have to
>change the Download-URL metadata in setup.py to point to a specific new
>sdist tarball URL every time I make a release; I want it to always point
>to the same index URL and have that index page scraped for new release
>tarball URLs."

Correct, sorry for not being clear.

-Barry
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