[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

David Cournapeau david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Mon Apr 6 21:01:59 CEST 2009


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

A simple example: including sphinx-generated documentation. If including
non-VCS controled stuff is an anti-case, then why having sdist at all ?
Any half decent VCS can generate a tarball directly from the files it
controls.

cheers,

David


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