[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tres Seaver]

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 09:23, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I don't understand a large part of this discussion, but it seems to me
>>>> that the expected and reasonable way of determening what files to
>>>> include would be to:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Specify files in setup.py
>>>> 2. Use the files that is a part of the VCS.
>>> What if you don't want to include some files that are present in the VCS ?
>> Well, then you need to specify stuff in setup.py.
> 
> So part of your file list is declared implicitely in your (D)VCS and
> part explicitely in your setup.
> This is getting complicated.

Or we add support allow specifying the exclusions directly.

>>> This is an implicit behavior.
>> It's a practical default.
> 
> For sure. But that means there will be still more than one way to do it
> 
> Unless the resulting MANIFEST file is always stored in the (D)VCS
> besides setup.py maybe..

- -1 to any file which looks like the current MANIFEST{,.in} at all,
anywhere, in the "one way" model (as opposed to BBB).



Tres.
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