[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 09:23, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>
> Well, then you need to specify stuff in setup.py.

So part of your file list is declared implicitely in your (D)VCS and
part explicitely in your setup.
This is getting complicated.

>
>> This is an implicit behavior.
>
> It's a practical default.

For sure. But that means there will be still more than one way to do it

Unless the resulting MANIFEST file is always stored in the (D)VCS
besides setup.py maybe..

Tarek