On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of > a pure python description. Then people strongly objected.
How many people objected? Would it be OK to only have support for this in an external plugin, and not in stdlib? Again, this is of course only possible if the new distutils is called something else, as we need backwards compatibility for a Very Long Time if it continues to be called distutils. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig