On Sunday 05 April 2009 10:45:45 am Tarek Ziadé wrote: > I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a > package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern > see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302
Not all files that are released in an sdist would be considered for installation (ala package_data). Think of top-level README, COPYRIGHT, LICENSE or files (modules) used only by the setup.py script (ala custom commands). It would become an abuse of a keyword `package_data` to indicate files that are not actually *package* data. Remember not all files are meant to be used by the Python code, some, like C header files, would only be used at build time. This just strikes me as being an over-simplification that really benefits no one. Note, however, `sdist` does need to be updated to include more files automatically, like the aforementioned C header files. With those fixes in place, then, maybe, MANIFEST.in would not be required. -- Jeremy Kloth 4Suite Developer http://4suite.org/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
