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Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a)

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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> I've now produced a small Python library which knows how to transform a
> reST Changelog to package metadata; and how to get that package metadata
> into and out of a Python distribution with Distutils.
>
> The result is that I will never again upload the package with a mismatch
> between what the Changelog claims is the latest version, and what the
> package metadata says.
>
>
> This may be generally useful to others. I'm interested to know how
> people would expect to use this. As an extension to Distutils? As a
> third-party library? Something else?

I can't speak as a package maintainer (because I'm not one), but
speaking as an end user, I'm in favour of anything that guarantees
consistency like that. It's only occasionally an issue, but for
instance, if I clone someone's source code repository and then install
a package from there, it's not necessarily obvious from 'pip freeze'
that I have something that can't so easily be downloaded. If the
Changelog were guaranteed to show that, then I could easily see what's
going on (eg if a new entry is created, immediately after the version
release, adding an alpha version tag).

ChrisA

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Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-08 04:35 +0000
  Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-08 18:12 +1100
    Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-08 22:16 +1100
      Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-01-08 23:32 +0100
        Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-09 11:41 +1100
          Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 11:50 +1100
            Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-01-09 09:05 +0000
              Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 22:01 +1100
                Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-01-09 11:42 +0000
          Where to learn current best Python packaging practices (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 12:11 +1100
            Re: Where to learn current best Python packaging practices (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 17:39 -0800
            Re: Where to learn current best Python packaging practices (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 17:42 -0800
              Re: Where to learn current best Python packaging practices Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 13:37 +1100
      PyPI files should not change their payload (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 10:55 +1100
        Re: PyPI files should not change their payload (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-09 11:38 +1100
      Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 11:06 +1100
        Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 05:17 +1100
          Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-12 07:21 +1100
            Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 12:37 -0800
              Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-12 05:44 +0000
                Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-01-12 05:24 -0800
                Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 06:59 +0000
                Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-01-13 00:09 -0800
                Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 08:22 +0000
          Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-14 21:59 +1100
      Re: Using a ChangeLog as a canonical source of package metadata (was: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 11:16 +1100
  Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-01-08 08:27 +0100
    Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-08 22:20 +1100

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