[New-bugs-announce] [issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

[dholth]

New submission from dholth <dholth at fastmail.fm>:

In distutils2 there is currently no way to add files such as egg_info.txt that should be part of the package metadata. A new category named the same as the .dist-info directory would be a nice way to do it.

distutils2 should raise an error if any of the reserved files are overwritten with this feature or it should just copy these first overwriting with the reserved names.

It might be a good idea to disallow subdirectories in dist-info.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils2
messages: 134077
nosy: alexis, dholth, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: add a {dist-info} category to distutils2
type: feature request

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