Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
Hi,
I have the feeling that the MANIFEST file is not always generated from the MANIFEST.in, especially if MANIFEST.in has not changed since the previous generation. Is this the right behaviour?
I was recently bitten by this when shipping a bugfix release: new files had been added which should have made it to the tarball, but since the MANIFEST file was not regenerated, this did not happen.
Is regenerating the MANIFEST file so expensive that this tiny optimisation is necessary? My experience with most package is that the time gained is not that big -- especially compared to the time spent tracking the missing files ;o)
I always delete the MANIFEST before building a new release. That seems to do the trick. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Sep 25 2003)
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