At 04:23 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Because we have too many ways to handle this problem right now.

Then why add another one? Because AFAICT you won't be able to support the full range of existing distutils use cases without something approximating MANIFEST.in. And what is the motivation for developers using MANIFEST.in to move *off* of it?