[Chicago] Distributing doc files w/ distutils src pkg?

[Ian Bicking]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Kumar> I believe you need to add "include" statements to the MANIFEST.in
>     Kumar> *even though* you declared the data_files keyword.  
> 
> Phillip Eby responded in the distutils-sig and pointed me in the right
> direction:
> 
>   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-October/008431.html
> 
> I was completely unaware of the existence of MANIFEST.in files.

BTW, if you are using svn and Setuptools you can just do 
include_package_data=True and it automatically figures out what files to 
include.  I believe there are packages you can install for other VCS 
besides svn.

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