[Distutils] data_files and sdist
Paul Prescod
paul at prescod.net
Sun Feb 22 11:53:01 EST 2004
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Paul Prescod wrote:
>
>> Is there a deep reason that the sdist command does not include
>> data_file files by default?
>
>
> AFAIK, the files which are included by sdist are defined by the
> MANIFEST -- seems reasonable to me.
I think that the MANIFEST is a bad idea. Why have a second way of
describing what files are relevant? Setup.py should be enough. Because I
think that MANIFEST is a bad idea, I delete it every time I build and
let Pyrex generate another. This brings me to my low-level question.
Pyrex generates a MANIFEST according to rules described here:
* http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/source-dist.html
These rules do not include data_files. My original question was "why not?"
Paul Prescod
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