[IPython-dev] Help needed: stumped by odd MANIFEST.in/distutils behavior

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:45:03PM -0700, Paul Ivanov wrote:
> It comes from Gael's joblib - where Gael still has 'sdist' listed
> under "For some commands, use setuptools"
> (https://github.com/joblib/joblib/blob/master/setup.py)

Hum, I am not sure why. Maybe because I do a sphinx_build for the sdist.
If you find out more about what side effects having setuptools in for the
sdist does, I am interested.

Gael