Adam <adam.schmalho...@gmx.de> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > […] the ‘SOURCES.txt’ file is distributed as source, so > > automatically deleting that file is too much magic. Rather, the > > build process should not modify the source files at all. > > SOURCES.txt is rebuilt and not modified.
You say tomayto, I say tomahto. > From /usr/share/doc/python-distribute/html/setuptools.html (which is > in python-distribute-doc): > > | MANIFEST.in is still read and processed, as are the standard defaults > | and pruning. But the manifest is built inside the project’s .egg-info > | directory as SOURCES.txt, and it is rebuilt every time the egg_info > | command is run. I wonder, then, why the file is included in the source distribution at all. Does it serve any function there, if that version is never used but is only re-built? -- \ “Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from | `\ bad judgement.” —Frederick P. Brooks | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
