[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-04-07 00:20, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 06:17, David Cournapeau
> <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>  wrote:
>> 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 :)
>
> Except for files generated by the sdist/build-process, yes. Why would
> you want to include files in a distribution that are neither
> controlled source files or a result of the sdist/build process?

Unfortunately, the setup.py file is not always capable of performing all of the 
build processes (at least, not easily). One might use a Makefile or other build 
tool to build the docs or other assets. So you need a manual way of telling the 
setup.py file what additional files to include.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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