[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:43 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 16:04, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand why you're so anxious to deprecate something without
> > first understanding what it's for.
>
>If nobody understands it, that is in itself reason to replace it with
>something people understand.

I mean understanding the use cases and how distutils features are 
used in the field.  Deprecating something that people do understand 
and use, simply because you don't understand or use it, is not 
responsible stewardship for a stdlib package, IMO.