distutils: setup.py sdist problem

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Mon May 12 13:44:43 EDT 2003


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.

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