[Zope3-dev] Re: Checkins mails and zope egg changes

[Jim Fulton]

On Feb 15, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
...
>> Agreed.  Anyway, atleast we will be required a README.txt and  
>> CHANGES.txt
>
> I would argue that those belong in the *package*, not in the  
> "building"
> directory (the one containing 'setup.py'), because they are  
> relelvant to
> users of the built egg, not just to the developer who checks out the
> whole thing.
>
> I know that distutils / setuptools complain if they find no  
> 'README.txt
> ' next to setup.py:  I ususally have a nearly empty one pointing  
> "down"
> to the real one.

+1  I'll start moving in this direction.

Jim

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