[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[zooko]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> Could we in this discussion, instead of making fuzzy general  
> statements explain exactly what the problems are?

So far, the setuptools behavior has worked fine for me on both  
numerous small projects (e.g. pyutil [1], zfec [2], pycryptopp [3],  
dupfilefind [4], zbase32 [5]) and on a couple of larger projects  
(allmydata-tahoe [6] and Nevow [7]).  I've used the builtin svn  
integration and a plugin for darcs that I wrote myself  
(setuptools_darcs [8]).  The setuptools options of  
"include_package_data", "exclude_package_data", and "package_data"  
provide control over the behavior.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zfec
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycryptopp
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dupfilefind
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zbase32
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/allmydata-tahoe
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nevow
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_darcs