[Distutils] Trouble packaging data files.

[Oliver Schoenborn]

Yarden Katz wrote:

>Oliver Schoenborn <oliver.schoenborn at utoronto.ca> writes:
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>>I would guess it's your (possibly missing) MANIFEST file, which should
>>include a line for the data stuff.
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>If I "rm MANIFEST" and let distutils recreate it, the problem doesn't change.  Am I supposed to manually edit MANIFEST?
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Actually, I meant the MANIFEST*.in* file: AFAIR, sdist only includes 
certain known files (*.py etc) and you have to tell it what else to 
include in the MANIFEST.in file. The MANIFEST file is automatically 
generated if it doesn't exist. OTOH, I think you can directly create a 
MANIFEST file, it does not get overwritten if it already exists *and 
*there is no *.in* file.

I have refactored the manifest code into a separate module that you can 
use for packaging data for other build commands, such as bdist, let me 
know if you would like to give it a try (haven't had time to submit it 
as a patch yet). I used it to package a database and config files etc 
with my distribution.

Oliver