On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:48:59AM +0200, Rene Liebscher wrote:
The sdist command has an option --force-manifest http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/source-dist.html#SECTION0005200000000...
You could write it in one of your prefered config files for distutils http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/config-syntax.html
So there is no need to make a patch for it. (Except maybe to better document this option so people find it better ;-)
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