On 2009-04-07 00:20, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 06:17, David Cournapeau
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
An sdist is *not* just a tarball of the source files.
It is if you consider any non-tracked file to be an anti-usecase, which
is what I was answering to :)
Except for files generated by the sdist/build-process, yes. Why would
you want to include files in a distribution that are neither
controlled source files or a result of the sdist/build process?
Unfortunately, the setup.py file is not always capable of performing all of the
build processes (at least, not easily). One might use a Makefile or other build
tool to build the docs or other assets. So you need a manual way of telling the
setup.py file what additional files to include.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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