[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 07:36, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

OK, this is a good usecase for including non-VCS files.

But then again, nobody ever said that this would *not* be possible. In
this case you are likely to have several intermediate files that you
are not interested in including, and the question is if you want to
include the source files used for this external build tool at all. So
would automatic globbing be better? Wouldn't you need to specify which
files that should be included here?

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