Please provide sourcecode archives on PyPi

[glaubitz]

I'm currently packaging the various open-telemetry packages for openSUSE/SLE which is normally very easy by downloading the sources from PyPi using SUSE's py2pack and generating a spec file with the same utility.

However, open-telemetry currently does not provide any sourcecode releases on PyPi which is why packaging it for openSUSE/SLE and other Linux distributions is more cumbersome.

Could you provide sourcecode packages on PyPi like many other Python packages?

[Oberon00]

Related: #252

@allantw also requested a src distribution there.

[toumorokoshi]

@glaubitz this is something we can do as part of our Alpha 0.4 release on Friday. Does that sound like a good timeline?

[glaubitz]

@toumorokoshi Absolutely, thanks a lot! I can submit the packages to openSUSE/SLE on the weekend then.

[c24t]

@glaubitz out of curiosity, what's the motivation for packaging OT up for SUSE? I'm glad to hear it, just surprised since every release so far (and the one coming up) have been alpha versions.

[glaubitz]

It's a new dependency of Microsoft's Python Azure SDK which we are providing to customers in the Public Cloud.

It's required by azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry, see: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:repo-checker/reports/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:29.

[c24t]

As of https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v0.4.0, source archives are on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-api/#files.

@glaubitz feel free to reopen if there's anything we're missing here.