how are release tarballs generated?

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 17:43 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How are the source tarballs which are put on the site for download 
> generated? The tarball generated by
> 
>      python setup.py sdist

Are you looking for an opinion on setuptools? I sure have one.

I do this:

hg co -q $1
make doc > /dev/null
make dist-notests

Check out the makefile entry for dist-notests.

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