[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:23 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>Because we have too many ways to handle this problem right now.

Then why add another one?  Because AFAICT you won't be able to 
support the full range of existing distutils use cases without 
something approximating MANIFEST.in.  And what is the motivation for 
developers using MANIFEST.in to move *off* of it?