[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:02, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> I'm not advocating using the VCS to *generate the tarball*. I'm
> talking about using the VCS to *determine what files to put in the
> tarball*.

What's the difference?


Personally, I agree that if there is a VCS, and no other information
on what files to include, using the VCS file info makes sense to me.

I don't understand a large part of this discussion, but it seems to me
that the expected and reasonable way of determening what files to
include would be to:

1. Specify files in setup.py
2. Use the files that is a part of the VCS.
3. Include all files, except *.pyc, *.bak and other well known
extensions for backup files or intermediary/temporary files.

I don't personally see the reason for any other ways of specifying
files, in particularly not a MANIFEST file, which I never saw the
point of and always found confusing, and hence never have used. I have
also never understood why distutils is so picky on what it includes.

Just my 2 cents.

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