pysetup create, the setup.cfg creation helper, used to convert
package_data (from an existing setup.py) into extra_files, the
replacement for MANIFEST.in, but these files are only present in sdists,
not installed: they don’t have the same use case at all, so converting
one into the other did not work.
Running with regrtest does not show spurious output or unrestored
sys.std* objects; sometimes running with make test is different, I’ll
watch the buildbots.
In addition, update the create module to use logging.
This huge module is the heir of six distutils modules, and contains
a number of miscellaneous functions. I have attempted to help readers
of the source code with an annoted __all__. Removed or deprecated
functions have been removed from the documentation; I’m working on
another patch to document the remaining public functions.
For the curious:
The unzip_file and untar_file were used by (or intended to be used by)
“pysetup install path/to/archive.tar.gz”, but the code presently used
shutil.unpack_archive and an helper function, so I just deleted them.
They’re still in the repository if we need them in the future.
The find_packages function is not used anymore but I want to discuss
module and package auto-discovery (in “pysetup create”) again before
removing it.
subst_vars now lives in sysconfig; rfc822_escape is inlined in
packaging.metadata. Other functions are for internal use only, or
deprecated; I have left them out of __all__ and sprinkled TODO notes
for future cleanups.
The example version numbers were invalid and “package” was misused. I
also made lines shorter, replaced “e-mail” with “email” (more common in
the stdlib and I believe in English generally) and tweaked a few other
things.
Éric Araujo
Tarek Ziade
Victor Stinner