On 01/19/2015 12:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 19 January 2015 at 11:59, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > I actually misunderstood your question. If you're just after the > ability to say "I want to include this file in the sdist, but not in > the built wheel file or installed distribution" (as I now believe you > are), then you're in the implementation defined world of the > significantly underspecified sdist format. I believe setting that up > actually *is* possible already, but have no idea what incantation > you'll need to pass to setuptools to make it do it (and the docs are > unlikely to be a reliable guide).
This is actually quite easy, its a distutils feature not a setuptools one, and it works as documented. Just put the file in MANIFEST (or add a MANIFEST.in rule matching it), but don't reference it in any of the various setup.py kwargs that cause things to be installed. Carl
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