[Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> no. if you change MANIFEST.in, MANIFEST is rebuilt. You have to re-run
>> the sdist command though.
>>
>
> Okay, new development. I've written a MAINFEST.in file like this:
>
> recursive-include garlicsim_wx *
> recursive-exclude garlicsim_wx *.pyc
>
> When I do an sdist, I see all is good, it includes my images in the package.
> But, when I do a bdist_msi and run the installer, it doesn't copy the images
> to the garlicsim_wx folder in site-packages.
>
> Why? What do I do?

Did you include them in "package_data"  in your setup.py ?