On Tuesday 11 September 2007 02:23:49 pm Eric Firing wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Could MANIFEST also be removed? I think it is generated from MANIFEST.in.
>
> It is, but it is not clear to me when or how this occurs.  Does
> distutils do it?  MANIFEST seems to have special significance, but I
> don't know anything about it beyond that.

It is created when we do "python setup.py sdist". Once it is created, it is 
used to create the source archive. There is a short discussion here:
http://docs.python.org/dist/manifest-options.html. I think it is appropriate 
to remove it from the archive, I'll go ahead and do it.

Darren

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