[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Apr 6 15:40:33 CEST 2009


At 03:11 AM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>Right,
>that would require something else, maybe a new one, ignored by the
>install command
>and using the glob-style pattern.
>
>This means the glob-style pattern will need to have an exclude mechanism
>if some non-installed data are inside a directory that is added in 
>package_data
>(like the tests directory if it's located in the src directory)

We already have this...  it's called MANIFEST.in.



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