[Distutils] distutils bug.

[Titus Brown]

-> >it seems that distutils doesn't recognize '.zip' files as being part of
-> >packages, so if I have the following structure,
-> >
-> >        twill/__init__.py
-> >        twill/pyparsing.zip
-> >        twill/mechanize.zip
-> >        twill/shell.py
-> >        twill/commands.py
-> >
-> >then packages = ['twill',] doesn't install the .zip files.
-> 
-> With Python >=2.4, or with the setuptools package, you can add something 
-> like this to your setup options:
-> 
->     setup(
->         ...
->         package_data = {'': ['*.zip']}
->     )
-> 
-> And .zip files will be then installed.  See:
-> 
->     http://docs.python.org/dist/node11.html
-> 
-> for documentation on the package_data option.

Ahh, fantastic, thanks.  I read up to section 2.4 but wasn't sure what
to look for, so gave up & just read Quixote's code.

-> (By the way, the behavior you describe is not a "bug"; it's distutils' 
-> current documented behavior.)

It's hard to know how to respond to that... "MS Windows may
occasionally crash." ;)

--titus