[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[David Cournapeau]

Ben Finney wrote:
>
> An sdist is *not* just a tarball of the source files.

It is if you consider any non-tracked file to be an anti-usecase, which
is what I was answering to :)

Moving away from "using VCS is good" vs "using VCS is not good", maybe
we should focus on the workflows to support. The most significant to me
is reproducibility (python setup.py sdist output should depend as little
as possible on its environment - whether the sources are under VCS or
not, etc....). At least one person said this is not a requirement. Can
we reach a consensus on this point, and then focus on the technical
solutions ?

cheers,

David