[Distutils] Best practices on distributing documentation and examples with eggs?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:07 PM 7/26/2007 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>Note that if you are using a revision control system, and
>>setuptools deletes a file from there, it might get restored by your
>>revision control, and that could potentially be a problem unless
>>you also manually delete the file.
>
>When does setuptools delete a file there?

Whenever a setuptools "egg_info.writers" plugin does.  :)

More usefully, most files generated by setup() arguments (e.g. 
entry_points) will be deleted the next time you run egg_info, if you 
removed that argument from setup().