[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 03:11 AM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Right,
>> that would require something else, maybe a new one, ignored by the
>> install command
>> and using the glob-style pattern.
>>
>> This means the glob-style pattern will need to have an exclude mechanism
>> if some non-installed data are inside a directory that is added in
>> package_data
>> (like the tests directory if it's located in the src directory)
>
> We already have this...  it's called MANIFEST.in.
>

hum, ok let's deprecate what package_data provides then, (the ability
to define a list
of files without a MANIFEST.in template)....


>



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