[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/4/6 Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>:
> 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.

What if you don't want to include some files that are present in the VCS ?
This is an implicit behavior.

Tarek