On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> > We already have this... it's called MANIFEST.in. >> > >> >> hum, ok let's deprecate what package_data provides then, (the ability >> to define a list >> of files without a MANIFEST.in template).... > > MANIFEST.in (under setuptools at least) is merely a way to specify > *exceptions* to the defaults, for what goes in the sdist.
I doubt this was the first goal of this templating system (dealing with what setuptools was unable to deal with) > > I don't understand why you're so anxious to deprecate something without > first understanding what it's for. Because we have too many ways to handle this problem right now. It's a mess. (and I think this mess is partly because of your project - besides all the good features it has of course) > > If you want to put some sort of sdist_exceptions in setup.py to replace the > *file*, that's one thing, but the *same functionality* of MANIFEST.in is > still needed, or else setuptools would've deprecated it. We need to describe a list of file. that's for sure. But not with : a VCS Plugin, + a MANIFEST.in but just for the exceptions + a bit of package_data etc.. how do you expect people to do it right ? Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig