[Distutils] Regeneration of source manifest

Arve Knudsen arve.knudsen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 22:51:40 CEST 2007


I take it there is no interest in fixing this problem? Or is it simply too
much hassle??

Arve

On 7/10/07, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> As far as I can tell setuptools does not always regenerate the source
> manifest when MANIFEST.in changes, contrary to what the documentation
> says. That is, if I add a directive to exclude files with the .txt extension
> to MANIFEST.in (after having previously including them), and run the sdist
> command, such files are still included.  I have to remove the .egg-info for
> things to work as expected. This must clearly be a bug?
>
> Regards,
> Arve Knudsen
>
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