[Distutils] pypi and easy_install

[Giampaolo Rodola']

> (This is a distutils feature and doesn't require setuptools, although
> the distutils are a bit trickier to get the tarball to include
> everything, as you have to explicitly list in MANIFEST.in anything
> that distutils doesn't automatically pick up.

Sorry for replying so late.
Gently, I would be interested in knowing how can I have distutils to
include everything.
Currently I've tried to use setup.py sdist but CREDITS, HISTORY,
INSTALL and LICENSE files aren't included in the tarball.

2007/12/20, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 02:26 PM 12/20/2007 +0100, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> >Oh, I'm sorry,
> >yestarday night it was very late (5:00 AM) and I completely
> >misunderstood what you said.
> >Thanks for your help, I'm going to rename the tarball.
>
> It will be better for you in general if you just use "setup.py sdist"
> to generate your tarballs, as they will then have the right name, and
> also will include the distutils PKG-INFO.
>
> (This is a distutils feature and doesn't require setuptools, although
> the distutils are a bit trickier to get the tarball to include
> everything, as you have to explicitly list in MANIFEST.in anything
> that distutils doesn't automatically pick up.  Setuptools on the
> other hand will automatically include anything that's under revision
> control in your project, unless you use MANIFEST.in to tell it *not*
> to.  CVS+SVN support is built in, plugins for various other revision
> control systems can be found on PyPI.)
>
>