[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> 2009/4/6 David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>:
>> python setup.py sdist # put everything under svn into the tarball
>> cd dist && uncompress tarball && python setup.py sdist # the  
>> tarball is
>> not the same
>
> Why not?


It will be missing the .hg,.svn or whatever it used to generate the  
file list.

I think the non magic way would be to have a tool to extract a file  
listing from (d)vcs and using that to generate a file, or maybe the  
api be made so that you have to explicitly put "file_list =  
distutils.generate_files_hg()" somewhere, then it is not magic  
anymore, and changing is just creating a list or a function that  
returns a list.


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Leonardo Santagada
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