[Distutils] setuptools include_package_data ignore data under a 'package'?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:33 PM, bbangert at groovie.org wrote:

>> The new one is missing the docs, public, templates directories  
>> which are
>> package data directories containing content. If these aren't  
>> included on
>> purpose, where can I get more information on exactly what
>> include_package_data=True does actually include?
>>
>> BTW, I'm using setuptools 0.6a9
>
> Nevermind, I already see this was due to me not having checked in the
> project to a version control system or registering all the files  
> manually
> in MANIFEST.in.
>
> Any plans to support darcs?

If you want darcs (hg, svk, perforce, ...) support, I'm sure it'd get  
added if you wrote a patch  :)

Perhaps setuptools should support manifest generating hooks via an  
entry point?

-bob