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dagett
dagett

Reputation: 81

How to set setuptools archive file name?

When creating a source distribution using setuptools 

$ python setup.py sdist

the resulting archive file includes the version number: FooBar-0.0.1.tar.gz Is there a way to tell setup.py to create a resulting file without the version number: FooBar.tar.gz ?

When the archive then is published to an internal site, it is always possible to do:

$ pip install http://hostname/user/FooBar.tar.gz

The version number is still available inside the archive file. The docs allow a change of file ending/format (zip, tar, etc) but I haven't found a way for setuptools to set the file name without version number.

Outside of setuptools, it can be solved by:

$ mv -v dist/FooBar-* dist/FooBar.tar.gz

assuming there is one file dist/FooBar-*.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 693

Answers (1)

Michael Aldrich
Michael Aldrich

Reputation: 31

My research shows that you can not.

In the source for setuptools you can see the code that makes the source distribution uses self.distribution.get_fullname()

And that code uses the name and version to populate the name.

Upvotes: 3

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