[Distutils] setup.py not being included with sdist

[Nicodemus]

Ricardo Niederberger Cabral wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:34:22 -0300
>"Nicodemus" <nicodemus@icablenet.com.br> wrote:
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>>I've been using distutils to create distributions of some scripts and
>>libraries, and everything works as expected, except that the setup.py file
>>is not included in the source distribution.
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>>and run "python setup install", it creates a zipfile named "foo-1.0.zip",
>>that contains the following files:
>>foo-1.0/
>>foo-1.0/foo.py
>>foo-1.0/PKG-INFO
>>Shouldn't setup.py be included with the distribution? What am I doing wrong?
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>try:
>$ python setup.py sdist
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>If even after that setup.py doesn't end up on your source tarball, you may, as a last resort, include setup.py on your MANIFEST.in file.
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>Best regards,
>

Jesus, I sent that message last year! 8P

That was a mistake, I was using "python setup.py sdist", sorry about 
that. Also, the environment was Windows 2000. To solve this, I used the 
MANIFEST.in file as you suggested.

Regards,
Nicodemus.