co-ordination of Record-83 source

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Fri Jul 2 01:54:52 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:27:10AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Fri, 02-07-2010 a las 10:02 +1000, James Cameron escribi??:
> 
> > A patch file was left in the filesystem and included in the .xo.  In my
> > opinion, if MANIFEST support was working correctly, this would not have
> > happened, because the file would not have been included in the .xo.
> 
> But the MANIFEST itself is auto-generated by setup.py... so setup.py
> already knows what files should go into the xo.

A fascinating meaning of the word MANIFEST that I had not previously
encountered.  That sounds like an INVENTORY.

What's the point of a file that is automatically generated?

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



More information about the Devel mailing list