Description

When a file is created in the ./dist directory before running uv publish, this file causes uv publish to fail. The documentation states that it ignores all other files.

This issue is clearly minor and does not really impact the user much (the error message is quite clear).

However, I think there is no reason to fail if an unknown file is present – as long as a wheel and/or sdist file is found.

If this failure is deliberate, then I would recommend change the documentation.

Steps to reproduce

1. Build the project (using uv build). The build files will be generated in ./dist.
2. Create a file in the ./dist directory. On macOS, this could happen e.g. when opening the directory in Finder, which might create the .DS_Store file. Example: touch ./dist/.DS_Store
3. Run uv publish.

This will fail with the error: error: File is neither a wheel nor a source distribution: 'dist/.DS_Store'

Where does this error come from

The error is raised in uv_publish::files_for_publishing:

uv_distribution_filename::DistFilename::try_from_normalized_filename in turn checks if the files are valid wheel or sdist files. Example for wheels:

Meta

uv version:

uv 0.5.0 (Homebrew 2024-11-07)