[Zope-dev] Re: setuptools extension for buildout old-style tar-balls?

[Hanno Schlichting]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> lots of old-style Zope products are now available as eggs. However a lot 
> of people still don't work with buildout and need the old-style tar-balls.
> 
> Does anyone know of a setuptools extension for generating and upload the 
> tar-balls directly from a Products.XXXX package? Using the 'sdist' 
> command is not suitable since it includes the 'Products' top-level 
> directory which is not what we want.

Not yet, but I would be willing to help with writing one, as I could use 
one quite regularly.

Hanno