[Distutils] Installing (data-)files in package directories

[Stefan Seefeld]

Thomas Heller wrote:

> Ah yes, this looks quite nice (I'm looking into PyXML-0.8.3.tar.gz).
> And the trick is to reuse distutils' useless (?) install_data command
> ;-).

talking about data, I believe there's still a bug in the sdist command
that causes data files not to be put into a distro by default, i.e.
when no MANIFEST[.in] is provided.

Regards,
		Stefan