[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Apr 7 06:47:50 CEST 2009


David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> >
> > An sdist is *not* just a tarball of the source files.
> 
> It is if you consider any non-tracked file to be an anti-usecase,

No. In *no case* is an sdist equal to a tarball of the source files.
Please stop blurring the distinction.

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