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sip-distinfo(1) General Commands Manual sip-distinfo(1)

NAME

sip-distinfo - create and populate a .dist-info directory

SYNOPSIS

sip-distinfo [options] directory

directory is the full path name of the directory to create.

DESCRIPTION

sip-distinfo creates and populates a .dist-info directory of an installation or a wheel. It is provided for build systems that extend the SIP build system and need to create the .dist-info directory from an external tool such as make.

OPTIONS

Display a help message.
Display the SIP version number.
The console entry point ENTRY-POINT is added to the wheel. It is ignored if the --wheel-tag option is not specified. This option may be specified multiple times.
If the --wheel-tag option is specified then NAME is written as part of the Generator in the WHEEL file in the .dist-info directory. Otherwise NAME is written to the INSTALLER file. By default sipbuild is written.
VERSION is written as part of the Generator in the WHEEL file in the .dist-info directory. By default the SIP version number is written.
The GUI entry point ENTRY-POINT is added to the wheel. It is ignored if the --wheel-tag option is not specified. This option may be specified multiple times.
FILE contains a list of the relative names of the files, one per line, that comprise the installation or wheel contents. This option must be specified.
VALUE is used instead of any value specified for NAME in the [tool.sip.metadata] section of the pyproject.toml file.
This option is provided as an aid to Linux package builders. DIR is used to pass the commonly used values of DESTDIR or INSTALL_ROOT. If specified it should have a trailing native path separator.
The name of the directory containing the project's pyproject.toml file is DIR. This option must be specified.
EXPR is added to the list of prerequisites written to the METADATA file in the .dist-info directory. It is normally used to specify a particular version of a package project's sip module. This option may be specified multiple times.
TAG is written as the Tag in the WHEEL file in the .dist-info directory.