On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, > > Some comments: > >> "MANIFEST.in is fine" > > Except that it introduces Yet Another Domain Specific Language. Wtf > does "prune" mean? It's not obvious. The docs indicate that it > actually excludes, but why it's not called "exclude" is then strange. > We already have a language, Python. We don't need more. ;-) > > And the fact that is uses a separate file doesn't help. > > Yes, I know I'm just whining. But I don't agree that MANIFEST.in is > fine. I think it is unfine. :)
I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of a pure python description. Then people strongly objected. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
