[Distutils] Deviation between distutils and setuptools over package_data

[Eric V. Smith]

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On 9/20/2013 10:16 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 09:11 AM, Sebastien Douche wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Did setuptools recently learn about git?
> 
>> Nop.
> 
> I use setuptools-git regularly without problems.
> 
> 
>>> I would love an option to ignore VCS and let me specify what I
>>> want *explicitly*.
> 
>> Or remove the handling of VCS?
> 
> -1.  I haven't yet tried Marius' tool, but manually maintaining 
> MANIFEST.in is an unaceptable bug magnet.

I like having MANIFEST.in correct in case I need to build in a system
that's not a checkout. But I agree it's a bug magnet.

What I'd really like is a mode that throws an error if MANIFEST.in
doesn't agree with the VCS detection.

- -- 
Eric.
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