[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
...
>> If we are going to have a change log, which we should, I would prefer
>> it to be included in source distributions.
>
> I want them present in the *installed* egg, not just in the source
> distribution:  setuptools doesn't preserve source distributions after
> creating / installing the '.egg' version.

Agreed, but....

>>  Including a file other
>> that README in the root requires extra effort that I don't want to
>> require -- writing setup.py files is hard enough as it is.
>
> Put the "real" README.txt and CHANGES.txt in the actual package:  the
> version which is a peer of 'setup.py' should be a stub which points to
> the "real" versions.

I can live with this, but I don't like it.  It feels more complicated  
to me.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation