[Distutils] setuptools: ALL source tree?

[Pierre Imbaud]

Phillip J. Eby wrote :
> At 04:14 PM 10/10/2006 -0400, Pierre Imbaud wrote:
>> Trying to put setuptools to work, from the svn workspace, with no
>> previous experience of distutils or setuptools (previously had a script
>> making a tarball).
>> As often happens with very good tools, very well documented, some very
>> simple, yet vital pieces of information is missing for the newcomer.
>> ...
> 
> See:
> 
>   http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/dist/manifest.html
> 
> and:
> 
>   http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/dist/sdist-cmd.html#sdist-cmd
> 
> for the full doc on this.
> 
> The short version: create a MANIFEST.in file in 'root' with these two lines:
> 
> prune test
> prune doc
> 
> Setuptools will then remove anything under those subdirectories from its 
> source lists.  The files will not then be included in source distributions.
Works fine! thanks a lot!