[Distutils] sdist's default file list looks incomplete

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:24:29AM -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> the distribution has a 'headers' attribute that
> is used in 'install_headers'. Where is that attribute
> set from ? In the current design I would expect 'Extension'
> to set them, but they don't contain them...

It would be set by the call to setup():

setup(..., headers=["NumPy.h"], ...)

The code that does it would be at the end of the Distribution.__init__
method (around line 230 or so of dist.py).

--amk