Hello,
The docs seems to suggest you can override the default name MANIFEST.in, Correct. I tried finding which part of the doc hinted about that to see if I could improve it and could not find it! Do you have the link? http://docs.python.org/distutils/sourcedist.html#manifest-related-options
That’s definitely lacking, I’ll add the other options to that section.
however, I cannot seem to find an option or parameter to do so. Manifests and manifests templates are only used by the sdist command. If you run “python setup.py sdist -h”, you’ll find the --template/-t option. I am trying to run sdist throught distrubute or setuptools, I didn';t see that options. In fact, 'sdist -h' was the first thing I tried. I will try with stock distutils and see if it is there.
From a quick look at the code setuptools’ sdist command ignores MANIFEST.in and MANIFEST altogether and takes the list of files from the version control system.
Cheers