Feature request: adding files without a prefix in the ZIP archive

[gwerbin]

Thanks for the useful Hatch plugin!

It would be very useful if we could pass a null "root path" for the ZIP archive, thereby disabling the filename prefix for archive members.

That is, if I have the following project:

src/
  a.py
  b.py
  c.py

would like to be able to write install-name = '' and sources = [ 'src' ] and obtain the following archive members:

a.py
b.py
c.py
MANIFEST.json

Currently this can be achieved by setting install-name = '.' in the plugin config, but this seems somewhat dependent on undocumented behaviors of the ZipFile class and the unzip utility.

Here is my (not-yet-tested) patch to implement explicit support for install-name = '': master...gwerbin:hatch-zipped-directory:support-null-install-name

If you're interested, I can try working this into the test suite, although it might be a little tricky given the current fixture setup. Also happy to consider alternative designs.

[dairiki]

@gwerbin Thank you for the suggestion and patch!

I've implemented this in this commit, more or less following your patch. I've just published release 0.1.0b2 which includes this.

[gwerbin]

Nice, this is going to be really useful for me!