hi there, When generating a distribution, a list of files to be included is needed. This list is either provided by the packager (a 'MANIFEST' file), or it is generated by distutils from its limitted knowledge coming from existing commands. The documentation for sdist.get_defaults() states: "Add all the default files to self.filelist: - README or README.txt - setup.py - test/test*.py - all pure Python modules mentioned in setup script - all C sources listed as part of extensions or C libraries in the setup script (doesn't catch C headers!) Warns if (README or README.txt) or setup.py are missing; everything else is optional." I'm wondering why this list is lacking the scripts and data files that I can provide to setup(). They clearly are part of a distribution, and they are known to the distribution object, so they could be computed here. Is that a deliberate choice or an omission ? If the former, why ? If the latter, should I send in a patch ? (where ?) Regards, Stefan