[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 Sep 2014 21:04, "Donald Stufft" <donald.stufft at rackspace.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 29, 2014, at 6:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> One caveat on this: it would potentially be convenient to have a
"release" field in the wheel naming scheme, and adopt a similar approach
for other binary formats like Windows installers, specifically to allow
those to be updated without needing to do a full source version update.
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>> It's the silent substitution of file contents I have a fundamental
problem with, not the notion of being able to publish an updated platform
specific build artefact without having to bump the source release version.
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> Wheel files already include the idea of a build number baked into the
filename. That would be
> a different filename and thus would be allowed to be uploaded even if you
deleted the original
> Wheel. Is there something about that which wouldn’t work or did it just
slip your mind?

Slipped my mind - we generally leave it out of examples, so I managed to
forget the capability was already part of the spec.

That means this case should already be fully covered then, even if it
requires a pre-upload file renaming.

It does suggest that a short section on "Dealing with release errors" might
need to find a home somewhere in PyPUG, though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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> Donald Stufft
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