In distutils2 there is currently no way to add files such as egg_info.txt that should be part of the package metadata. A new category named the same as the .dist-info directory would be a nice way to do it.

distutils2 should raise an error if any of the reserved files are overwritten with this feature or it should just copy these first overwriting with the reserved names.

It might be a good idea to disallow subdirectories in dist-info.

This feature is two-fold: add a method to install_distinfo to make it write some data in some file; add a new resource category.

I'd like to work on this issue. What is the correct location of the Distutils2 project?

I have found these links:
http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/98e0d3c53a2f/distutils2/
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2c223d686feb/Lib/packaging

Thanks!

Hi Berker!  Welcome to Python core development.  Tips and guidelines for working on distutils are found here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Contributing

It’s best if you work on packaging from the cpython repo, but you can also use the distutils2 repo it that’s more convenient.

Feel free to ask any question!

Hey, is there any news on this bug? Berker?

Implemented in https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cpython/changeset/c493a5179621

Advice on writing the unit test would be appreciated.

Fixed closure mistake in remote tip

branch updated with regression test (add an entry_points.txt to test_command_install_data.py) and get_distinfo_file() can get any file inside the .dist-info directory.

Is this ready and just waiting to be merged now?

Yes, but I had some trouble attaching a good patch to the issue tracker
itself.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012, at 02:28 PM, David Barnett wrote:
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Did a first review on Rietveld, but I see that the patch may be outdated (it had no tests).

I appreciate it. I had trouble using the patch system after that. I will see whether I can generate a better one.

Daniel Holth

On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Did a first review on Rietveld, but I see that the patch may be outdated (it had no tests).
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Sorry, I won't be able to get around to this any time soon. The patch to fix this bug (in the CPython3 source code) is too intertwined with the other distutils2 fixes. Anyone is welcome to fish for it in my bitbucket.