[Distutils] Derivative files

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:11 PM 4/20/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I made a distutils command to take the Javascript files in an
>application and put them together and compress them.  I'd like the
>result to kind of always be there; it would be distributed with the egg
>for instance.  But I don't really want it in source control.  So I think
>I need to make this part of the build somehow.  What should I look for
>to do that?

A couple of options:

* Add it to MANIFEST.in, in which case it will be put in source 
distributions as well as the eggs, assuming it's in a package subdirectory 
and include_package_data is True

* list it explicitly in package_data