Ignore irrelevant files when uploading

[dukecat0]

The Issue

Just a feature request here:

When some irrelevant files are generated in dist/ when running CI, uploading it will error out. Example: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish#74

Is it possible for us to have a command-line argument like --ignore-irrelevant-files?
As I think twine only supports these six formats:

twine/twine/package.py

Lines 35 to 42 in ce87465

	DIST_EXTENSIONS = {
	".whl": "bdist_wheel",
	".exe": "bdist_wininst",
	".egg": "bdist_egg",
	".tar.bz2": "sdist",
	".tar.gz": "sdist",
	".zip": "sdist",
	}

[sigmavirus24]

This seems related to #853

[bhrutledge]

Yeah, from pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish#74, I don't know why *.dist-info would be ending up in the dist/ directory. That sounds like a symptom of a configuration issue, which I'm more inclined to resolve with the submitter, rather than add what feels like a hack to ignore it.

[sigmavirus24]

@meowmeowmeowcat do you also encounter this issue or were you looking for things to fix?

[dukecat0]

I didn't encounter this issue. And I also found that the command provided by @bhrutledge in pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish#74 is useful, so probably this feature is unnecessary.

[webknjaz]

FTR, it turned out to be meson's PEP 517 build back-end that creates *.dist-info/ folders under the dist/ directory. A quick search suggests that these lines are to blame: https://gitlab.com/thiblahute/mesonpep517/-/blob/fe3b0086/mesonpep517/buildapi.py#L648-650.

I've filed a bug with them at https://gitlab.com/thiblahute/mesonpep517/-/issues/22 if anybody wants to discuss it there.