On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:13 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no idea what to do about this -- on either setuptools or distutils. > For setuptools, file list calculation is inherently circular - an existing > manifest is always reused and pruned, in order to support situations where a > revctrl-based file list is then used in a scenario without revision control. > (That is, the MANIFEST included with a shipped sdist is used as a backup > for identifying files that might originally have been found via a revctrl > finder.)
For the revctrl part, can't setuptools build_py become an isolated command, run after the manifest is currently written by sdist ? some kind of "build_vcs" that would revise the file list in a second phase ? > > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
