[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tres Seaver]

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Ben Finney wrote:
> Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:02, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>>> I'm not advocating using the VCS to *generate the tarball*. I'm
>>> talking about using the VCS to *determine what files to put in the
>>> tarball*.
>> What's the difference?
> 
> The former is having the sdist process tell the VCS “generate a
> tarball export of the versioned files” which isn't much use since the
> result still isn't a complete sdist.
> 
> The latter is having the sdist process query the VCS “tell me the set
> of version files by name” and then using that information in the rest
> of the normal sdist creation process.
> 
> 
> David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
> 
>> Currently, using the vcs plugin does include everything as far as I
>> know. So what do you have in mind ?
> 
> That, in the presence of a VCS and in the absence of a ‘MANIFEST.in’
> file, the “create an sdist” procedure should query the VCS inventory
> for the information it would otherwise get from the ‘MANIFEST.in’.
> Thus making that file unnecessary in many cases that I care about.

In *any* case I know of:  including non-VCS-controleld files in an sdist
is an anti-usecase for me.


Tres.
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