[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:57, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> >   * write scripts to generate the final package and also verify its
> >     sanity (e.g. check version numbers, dates, detect files that
> >     should not be included in the release)
> 
> FWIW, one thing I like to do is compare the list of files in the new 
> release with the list of files in the previous release.  It's amazing 
> what can creep in.  I've attached the script I use--it's ugly but it works.

Sure is!  This is a little OT, but distutils MANIFEST files are very
useful for this purpose.

Jeremy