[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/4/6 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 06:45 PM 4/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the
>> MANIFEST template should be removed.
>>
>> I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a
>> package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern
>> see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302
>
> What about documentation files, data files, examples, and tests -- all of
> which might need to be included in an sdist, but would not be "package
> data"?

that would be data_files, but I am wondering if we should have an explicit
one for documentation files.