[Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

[Jeremy Stanley]

On 2014-09-30 09:22:29 -0600 (-0600), Carl Meyer wrote:
> On 09/30/2014 08:41 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Why is your setup.py sdist including autogenerated content? It
> > shouldn't be doing that.
> 
> Don't almost all sdists? At the very least egg-info is
> autogenerated, MANIFEST usually is too.

Bingo. Also in some cases I see files autogenerated from VCS
metadata to avoid double-entry... things like change histories,
authors lists, documentation indices, and even version numbers.
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Jeremy Stanley