[Distutils] option #1 plus download_url scraping

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jun 04, 2013, at 03:23 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
>> Do you mean you just don't want to update the version number in setup.py
>> before you release?
> 
> Correct, although on further reflection, if the alternative download site has
> predictable URLs, then it wouldn't be too difficult to calculate the new url
> for setup.py.  I just don't want to have to change the version number in more
> than one place (which for my packages, is *not* the setup.py).
> 
>> I'm a bit unsure of the reason for this. The goal is very specifically the
>> hosting outside of PyPI is no longer encouraged. The reliability and
>> performance of PyPI have enough of a track record now that "I want it on my
>> own site just in case" no longer holds enough water to be worth the
>> substantial downsides.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> -Barry
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Where are you updating the version information at? And how are you generating a tarball so that it's name has the correct version in it?

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