distutils: setup.py sdist problem

[Richard Gruet]

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote in message
news:ox2cnTlextwWQCKjXTWcpg at speakeasy.net...
> On Sun, 11 May 2003 23:35:07 +0200,
> Richard Gruet <rjgruet at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > package_dir =3D {'': '..'}, but this is another story). Reading the
> > documentation and the like just augmented my confusion: is it necessary
> > or not to write some MANIFEST / MANIFEST.in files ?
>
> Yes it is; the 'sdist' command does what it can to figure out the
necessary
> files, but can't catch everything.

But I have *explicitely enumerated* the files to be distributed using the
setup options 'py-modules' and 'data_files' ! I don't really understand what
the 'sdist' command has trouble to catch.

Richard