[Distutils] distutils data_files and setuptools.pkg_resources are driving me crazy

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Robin Bryce wrote:

> [using setuptools 0.6b4]
>
> I'm a setuptools user and greatly appreciative of it as well. I'd like
> to understand how to use it more appropriately with respect to
> bundling miscellaneous data files. "just put them in python packages"
> is really not what I want but perhaps its time to refactor my tastes
> and accept this is the most appropriate thing to do.

Refactor your tastes, it is the most appropriate thing to do.

-bob