[Distutils] setuptools: MANIFEST generation

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:39 AM 7/13/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I noticed in the documentation it said that setuptools can find files
>based on version control when creating source distributions.
>
>This almost never applies to my packages (at least the well made ones ;)
>because I have html files generated from txt sources, and I like to
>include the html.  Is there any way to tell setuptools to add certain
>files, but still automatically detect everything else?  It seemed to do
>an okay job when I created a MANIFEST.in with everything but
>"recursive-include . *.html" commented out, but there might be something
>I'm missing about it.
>
>Additionally, it would be nice to be able to exclude files, like files I
>use for internal package administration, or large svn externals which
>should be separate packages.

Hm.  Good points.  I'll put it on my list to see if there's a way to 
integrate this, although it may be that it's already integrated.  That is, 
if the distutils sdist command already applies its "get default files" 
before processing MANIFEST.in, the net result should be the same, with the 
exception that you'll have to use -f all the time to get the MANIFEST 
regenerated when anything changes.  (Currently, setuptools' sdist 
regenerates MANIFEST every time if you have no MANIFEST.in, thereby saving 
you the trouble.)

Hm.  Maybe there should be a MANIFEST.extra that would do the same 
thing.  Anyway, something to think about for *after* I get the current 
stuff on a testing regime.



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