On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:02, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > I'm not advocating using the VCS to *generate the tarball*. I'm > talking about using the VCS to *determine what files to put in the > tarball*.
What's the difference? Personally, I agree that if there is a VCS, and no other information on what files to include, using the VCS file info makes sense to me. I don't understand a large part of this discussion, but it seems to me that the expected and reasonable way of determening what files to include would be to: 1. Specify files in setup.py 2. Use the files that is a part of the VCS. 3. Include all files, except *.pyc, *.bak and other well known extensions for backup files or intermediary/temporary files. I don't personally see the reason for any other ways of specifying files, in particularly not a MANIFEST file, which I never saw the point of and always found confusing, and hence never have used. I have also never understood why distutils is so picky on what it includes. Just my 2 cents. -- 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
