[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Nick Coghlan]

On 1 October 2014 00:34, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2014-09-30 07:26:32 -0400 (-0400), Donald Stufft wrote:
> [...]
>> I don’t personally believe it makes sense for a source
>> distribution to have a build number.
> [...]
>
> I'm becoming less and less convinced it actually *is* a source
> distribution any more. My constant interaction with downstream Linux
> distro packagers shows a growing disinterest in consuming release
> "tarballs" of software, that they would generally prefer to pull
> releases directly from tags in the project's revision control
> systems instead.

Which distro packagers? For Fedora, even if we pull from an upstream
source control system, we'll still wrap it as a tarball inside an SRPM
in order to feed it into the buld system.

> Couple this with the fact that setup.py sdist can
> (and often does) include autogenerated content in its output which
> the packagers would rather strip or regenerate themselves, and I'm
> of the opinion that the tarballs I create are only for PyPI/pip
> consumption any longer. This effectively makes them a
> channel-specific packaging format rather than a generally reusable
> release source artifact.

Why is your setup.py sdist including autogenerated content? It
shouldn't be doing that.

Regards,
Nick.

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