[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:53 AM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>2009/4/6 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> > At 06:45 PM 4/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the
> >> MANIFEST template should be removed.
> >>
> >> I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a
> >> package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern
> >> see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302
> >
> > What about documentation files, data files, examples, and tests -- all of
> > which might need to be included in an sdist, but would not be "package
> > data"?
>
>that would be data_files, but I am wondering if we should have an explicit
>one for documentation files.

I mean, *non-installed* documentation, data, examples, and tests -- 
*none* of which would be currently listed in data_files.