Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > I'm not sure it is necessary to use TempdirManager here to write tests > for MANIFEST reading.
Well, the sdist command has to run on some directory where some files exist, right? So it’s better to do it in a temp dir that will automatically get cleaned up. > Bad effect is MANIFEST file will be re-written: You should read the docs for MANIFEST and sdist: a MANIFEST without the magic comment will not get overwritten (unless there’s a bug :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue828450> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com