On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
 > What do you mean with context?  Wouldn’t all three commands just
make install_distinfo generate files in the build dir?

Right, my context comment is invalid.

 > I think that option 4 is the most inelegant, and would be sad to see it win.
Ok... I forgot that we now have this RESOURCES file, which makes
leaving out the RECORD file less important, but still invalid based on
PEP 376.

So if we include the RECORD file (point number 2) without the checksum
and size (two columns in the RECORD csv format), we will still be
PEP376 valid (maybe?), but the file verification information will be
missing. And we don't really want this information because if we edit
a file, the checksum and size will be incorrect anyhow. This missing
information is not important when using the develop or test commands,
because we are running the commands on a trusted local copy. What are
the consequences of not writing the checksum or size to the RECORD
file? And does that solve the issue?