SF patch 959726: sdist versus SVN
The disutils sdist command now ignores .svn directories.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 45a172c..ab705af 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
over a sequence.
- Added a sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list
- from any iterable.
+ from any iterable.
- CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr.
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@
- buffer objects based on other objects no longer cache a pointer to
the data and the data length. Instead, the appropriate tp_as_buffer
- method is called as necessary.
+ method is called as necessary.
-- fixed: if a file is opened with an explicit buffer size >= 1, repeated
+- fixed: if a file is opened with an explicit buffer size >= 1, repeated
close() calls would attempt to free() the buffer already free()ed on
the first call.
@@ -311,6 +311,10 @@
Library
-------
+- The distutils sdist command now ignores all .svn directories, in
+ addition to CVS and RCS directories. .svn directories hold
+ administrative files for the Subversion source control system.
+
- Added a new module: cookielib. Automatic cookie handling for HTTP
clients. Also, support for cookielib has been added to urllib2, so
urllib2.urlopen() can transparently handle cookies.