[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:42 AM, David Cournapeau
<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the
>> MANIFEST template should be removed.
>>
>
> I am all for removing MANIFEST.in, but we should first make sure all its
> uses are covered by distutils. Currently, they are far from being
> fullfilled. The ones which come to mind are:
>    - a reliable way to include package_data

what do you mean ? (beside the feature that is decribed in the ticket
- which enables adding files recursively)

>    - a reliable way to add documentation (and install them somewhere
> which can be customized at build time and installation time)

Yes, beside the "how to include it in sdist" there's the "where to install it"

This is somehow related to the work started here
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata

Tres and Matthias were talking about adding an "install_doc" new command.

Cheers,
Tarek