[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 09:29:28 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:40, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> The former is having the sdist process tell the VCS “generate a
> tarball export of the versioned files” which isn't much use since the
> result still isn't a complete sdist.

I didn't even know you could do that.

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