[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 19:28, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> One particular annoyance is that the svn integration built-in to
> setuptools tends to break every time a major release of Subversion
> comes out

This is absolutely true, and annoying. Setuptools read the .svn files
directly, as I understand it. Those file formats change often, and
therefore that way of solving it is inherently unstable. But if this
isn't fixable, that just means that there shouldn't be an svn plugin,
at least not in the stdlib, as that requires "dead stable" API's.

This is however not an argument against asking the VCS for a list of
files. It's just an argument against doing it by parsing subversions
internal files.

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