problems with get_metadata_overrides()

[Phil Thompson]

On 01/06/2020 22:50, Steve Borho wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First, thanks for the new get_metadata_overrides() in sip-5.3, this is
> quite helpful.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I use the function the resultant wheel files are
> invalid.  It looks like it might be a problem with sip-distinfo.
> 
> % sip-wheel —verbose
> <SNIP>
> /home/sborho/uhenv/bin/sip-distinfo --inventory
> /tmp/tmp8_5xo7c1/inventory.txt --project-root
> /home/sborho/repos/foo/python --prefix "" --generator sip-wheel
> --wheel-tag cp36-cp36m-manylinux2014_x86_64 <SNIP> --requires-dist
> "PyQt5-sip (>=12.8, <13)" --requires-dist "numpy" --requires-dist
> "six" --requires-dist "argh" --requires-dist "tftpy >= 0.6.2"
> --requires-dist "pyserial >= 3.3" --metadata version=0.7.5.dev13
> /tmp/tmp8_5xo7c1/wheel/foo-0.7.5.dev13.dist-info
> 
> % pip install foo-0.7.5.dev13-cp36-cp36m-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl
> ERROR: foo has an invalid wheel, .dist-info directory not found
> 
> If I comment out get_metadata_overrides() in project.py; the resulting
> wheel is ok.  I’ve verified this behavior on Mac and Linux.
> 
> I am using these packages:
> 
> PyQt-builder==1.4.0
> PyQt5==5.15.0
> PyQt5-sip==12.8.0
> PyQtDataVisualization==5.15.0
> QScintilla==2.11.4
> sip==5.3.0
> 
> PyQt5-5.15.0 was sip-installed from the source tar-ball.

I can't reproduce the problem by adding this simple project.py...

from sipbuild import Project

class FibProject(Project):

     def get_metadata_overrides(self):
         return dict(version='0.7.5.dev13')

...to the fib example.

Phil