From 8e96b98282d8da7702a963aa751d9ecc29826dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:19:05 -0700 Subject: [3.12] gh-107322: zipapp: Remove the suggestion to remove .dist-info directories (GH-107296) (#109281) gh-107322: zipapp: Remove the suggestion to remove .dist-info directories (GH-107296) Removed zipapp suggestion to rm .dist-info subdirectories. This totally breaks importlib.metadata (cherry picked from commit 1ee50e2a78f644d81d341a08562073ad169d8cc7) Co-authored-by: wim glenn --- Doc/library/zipapp.rst | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/zipapp.rst b/Doc/library/zipapp.rst index 8cee85b..7c01fc1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipapp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipapp.rst @@ -281,12 +281,7 @@ The steps to create a standalone archive are as follows: file - if not, you can just list the dependencies manually on the pip command line). -3. Optionally, delete the ``.dist-info`` directories created by pip in the - ``myapp`` directory. These hold metadata for pip to manage the packages, and - as you won't be making any further use of pip they aren't required - - although it won't do any harm if you leave them. - -4. Package the application using: +3. Package the application using: .. code-block:: shell-session -- cgit v0.12