[Distutils] data in a source distribution?

[Jannis Leidel]

>> > Of course, if you use setuptools to create your sdist, and the data
>> > files are in revision control, they'll be included
>> > automatically.
>>
>> Is there a chance of setuptools recognizing other systems than SVN  
>> and cvs?
>>
>> I use Mercurial for all my own projects, and the setuptools don't  
>> seem to
>> recognize that yet.
>
> The first Google result for "setuptools mercurial" is:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hg.setuptools
>
> So, yes.  ;-)

Please note "hg.setuptools" is quite old and won't work with Mercurial  
 > 1.0. Since the author told me he wouldn't update it anymore I  
created http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_hg.

Cheers,
Jannis