Unnecessary files included with pip install

[chris-mcdo]

Versions: Ubuntu 20.04, python 3.9, pypandoc 1.7.5

Using pip install pypandoc creates the following files in my site-packages directory:

    site-packages/LICENSE
    site-packages/README.md
    site-packages/examples/services.py
    site-packages/filter_test.md
    site-packages/pypandoc/files/COPYRIGHT.txt
    site-packages/pypandoc/files/pandoc.exe
    site-packages/pypandoc-1.7.5.dist-info/*
    site-packages/pypandoc/*
    site-packages/tests.py

In other words, quite a few files are outside the package directories (pypandoc/* and pypandoc-*.dist-info).

This creates a few problems:

• The examples/ directory looks like an installed package.
• The tests.py file in site-packages broke my pytest tests (due to some sort of name collision). This took a while to debug, since I don't expect installing packages to interfere with tests.
• The LICENCE and README are confusing (which package do they belong to?) and are already present in the pypandoc-1.7.5.dist-info directory.

First, it seems preferable to keep all package files in the pypandoc/* and pypandoc-*.dist-info directories (unless absolutely necessary).

Second, the file pypandoc/files/pandoc.exe is useless to me (on linux), and is very(!) large (112MB). Maybe it could be made optional?

Thanks for reading! Please let me know what you think.

[JessicaTegner]

Hi.
Thanks for reporting this.
I was aware of the pandoc executable that had sneaked it's way into a binary dist of pypandoc.
However, I don't know what's causing the other files to be put there.
I'll investigate, and get back to you.

[JessicaTegner]

Hi again.
In future versions the test, readme and examples will no longer be included in the pip installables