Remove file type indicator

Rearrange order of file fields
Note that .pyc/.pyo files are listed, too
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2002-03-25 13:57:45 +00:00
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FILES section
An entry for each file installed by the package.
XXX Are .pyc and .pyo files in this list? What about compiled
.so files? AMK thinks "no" and "yes", respectively.
An entry for each file installed by the package. Generated files
such as .pyc and .pyo files are on this list as well as the original
.py files installed by a package; their checksums won't be stored or
checked, though.
Each file's entry is a single tab-delimited line that contains
the following fields:
* The file's full path, as installed on the system.
* The file's size
* The file's permissions, and the owner/group of the file.
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* An MD5 digest of the file, encoded in hex.
* The file's full path, as installed on the system. (XXX
should it be relative to sys.prefix, or sys.prefix +
'/lib/python<version>?' If so, full paths are still needed;
consider a package that installs a startup script such as
/etc/init.d/zope)
* XXX some sort of type indicator, to indicate whether this is
a Python module, binary module, documentation file, config
file? Do we need this?
A package that uses the Distutils for installation should
automatically update the database. Packages that roll their own
installation will have to use the database's API to to manually