At 12:43 PM 5/22/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

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At 11:15 AM 5/20/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jeff Hammel <jhammel@openplans.org> wrote:

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You have to verbosely include them with package data. IMHO, this is a setuptools bug. E.g.:

package_data={ 'geotrac': ['templates/*', 'htdocs/*'] }, include_package_data=True,

This is probably not quite right :(, but you get the idea.

I just tried this and doesnt include files for sdist ... :(

Looking forward for further hints : maybe it's just something I'm doing wrong, dont know, but eggs are ok so I'm not sure

If you are not using a revision control system plugin, you will have to list sdist files in MANIFEST.in;

Thanks, I included files in MANIFEST.in now I can distribute source packages for TracGViz [1]_ & TracPyTppTheme [2]_ so that EGGs can be built for different Py versions or whatever ...

So this is the way !

PS: BTW , I dont get the idea about specifying things twice (I mean package_data & MANIFEST.in ;) Is there a «logical» reason for this ? I mean why sdist doesnt look for the data specified in package_data ? Or alternately, what is the reason for having MANIFEST.in too ?

That's what distutils does. setuptools improves on it by adding revision control support. But if you don't use a revision control plugin or some other sort of file finder, you have to do it the old distutils way.