[Distutils] setuptools: ALL source tree?
Pierre Imbaud
pierre at saiph.com
Tue Oct 10 23:28:06 CEST 2006
Phillip J. Eby wrote :
> At 04:14 PM 10/10/2006 -0400, Pierre Imbaud wrote:
>> Trying to put setuptools to work, from the svn workspace, with no
>> previous experience of distutils or setuptools (previously had a script
>> making a tarball).
>> As often happens with very good tools, very well documented, some very
>> simple, yet vital pieces of information is missing for the newcomer.
>> ...
>
> See:
>
> http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/dist/manifest.html
>
> and:
>
> http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/dist/sdist-cmd.html#sdist-cmd
>
> for the full doc on this.
>
> The short version: create a MANIFEST.in file in 'root' with these two lines:
>
> prune test
> prune doc
>
> Setuptools will then remove anything under those subdirectories from its
> source lists. The files will not then be included in source distributions.
Works fine! thanks a lot!
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