Source archive for ducktype on pypi?

On Fri, 2019-05-17 at 14:55 -0400, Jack Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019, Shaun McCance wrote:
> 
> > I see a source package here:
> > 
> > https://pypi.org/project/mallard-ducktype/1.0.1/#files
> 
> Which file are you referring to? I see that 
> mallard-ducktype-1.0.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz is labeled as source, but 
> appears to be a snapshot of the files that would be produced when 
> installing Ducktype on x86_64 GNU/Linux.

Yes, that's the one I meant. I just created that with `setup.py sdist`.
I'll take a look at how rst2ansi does packages.

> The source I was expecting is more like the rst2ansi-0.1.5.tar.gz of 
> rst2ansi: https://pypi.org/project/rst2ansi/#files
> 
> The auto-generated tarballs on the release page of GitHub also have
> the 
> correct format, but, alas, we can't use them as the source for Guix 
> because GitHub may regenerate them with different timestamps which
> changes 
> their checksum.
> 
> > Did I do something wrong? I'm happy to adjust the release process
> > to
> > make packagers' lives better.
> 
> At least for Guix, fetching sources from git is trivial, so it
> didn't 
> cause me too much trouble. Ducktype was very pleasant to package, and
> I 
> have submitted it for inclusion in Guix: 
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35782
> 
> Hope that helps!
> Jack