[Distutils] Documenting the Distutils sdist format

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 7:34 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 
> (Ping; I didn't see a response and would like to start this work soon.)
> 
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> For projects under the PyPA banner, including packaging.python.org,
>> license in = license out is fine. That text is CC-BY-SA, so including
>> Apache Licensed text shouldn't pose any problems.
> 
> Okay. So with which repository from <URL:https://bitbucket.org/pypa/>
> should I start? Where would the documentation go, where would the
> regression tests go?
> 
> You appear to be distinguishing the license for executable code versus
> non-executable documentation. What license conventions should I be aware
> of?
> 
> If these are answered in a “hacking” document somewhere, a response
> pointing me to that document would be fine.

packaging.python.org (if you’re looking for that) is located on Github
at https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide.

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