On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Where in this is there a "lower level"? > > Number 1 could be the simple lower level, a list of files (I'm not > saying this is a good choice, I haven't studied all the issues good > enough). That way the tool you use to consume setup.py (or > whatever it becomes) can construct this list from your VCS in an > automated fashion if you do like that.
That's an egg-and-chicken issue. This is the MANIFEST final file, built by all the different mentioned techniques. > But it avoids having the VCS > dependency inside distutils. Maybe we could think about a plugin system to build this list. (a bit the way vcs plugins works in setuptools) Distutils would provide a default plugin and people will be able to register their own plugins. I'll write a small proposal for this. (I hope this won't create a new flame here) Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
