[Distutils] excluding files from sdist using setuptools?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:50 PM 3/2/2006 -0800, Andrew Straw wrote:
>How do I do the equivalent of an "exclude" in MANIFEST.in using
>setuptools? I can't find this documented anywhere.

Setuptools processes MANIFEST.in after its default processing, so if you 
need MANIFEST.in features, you can still use them.  It's just that the 
defaults include everything under source control.