[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 09:30:34 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 09:23, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand a large part of this discussion, but it seems to me
>> that the expected and reasonable way of determening what files to
>> include would be to:
>>
>> 1. Specify files in setup.py
>> 2. Use the files that is a part of the VCS.
>
> What if you don't want to include some files that are present in the VCS ?

Well, then you need to specify stuff in setup.py.

> This is an implicit behavior.

It's a practical default.

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