[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:41:07PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 07:20, David Cournapeau
> > <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> >   
> >> It depends on how you set your wildcard. If you use *.$ext, seems to me
> >> that it would alleviate those cases, or do you mean something else ?
> >>     
> >
> > Sure, but now we are getting closer and closer to having to specify
> > each file separately. Which is not a practical state of affairs. This
> > is about which process to use to determine which files should be
> > included when we don't specify things. 
> 
> I think it is obvious that we can't agree on the process :)
> 
> > I've never claimed it works for you. You are saying that this method
> > should *not* be supported.
> >   
> 
> I am not saying that it should not be possible - but that it should be
> built on top of a lower system which we can all agree upon. Then, you
> can use your tool to depend on the VCS to feed this lower system, and I
> can reuse this lower system myself without depending on the VCS thing,
> and everybody is happy ?

+1


Regards
Floris


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