Trying to put setuptools to work, from the svn workspace, with no previous experience of distutils or setuptools (previously had a script making a tarball). As often happens with very good tools, very well documented, some very simple, yet vital pieces of information is missing for the newcomer. my source tree: root setup.py package scripts test doc I dont want to distribute test: internal non-regression tools and data. dont want to distribute doc either. I found NO WAY, with setup.py at the top, to get these files out of the tarball. Am I supposed to make ONE tree with all I want to distribute, and all I dont want distributed in some other tree? Like: root dist setup.py package scripts test doc Its no big deal, Im redesigning the layering. But then, the only way to say: "I dont want this distributed any more" is by moving the file? Or did I miss some point? Thanks for answering