[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 07:20, David Cournapeau
<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> It depends on how you set your wildcard. If you use *.$ext, seems to me
> that it would alleviate those cases, or do you mean something else ?

Sure, but now we are getting closer and closer to having to specify
each file separately. Which is not a practical state of affairs. This
is about which process to use to determine which files should be
included when we don't specify things. Take all files, or take the
ones that are handled by a VCS. There is no doubt that taking the
files that are being version controlled are a sensible default.

> Well, no, I don't think so. You can't make assumptions about what I
> need, as I can't make assumption about what you need.

I'm not making any such assumptions.

> I am not denying that it works for you. I am just trying to argue that
> it does not work for me,

I've never claimed it works for you. You are saying that this method
should *not* be supported. Hence you are saying that it somehow does
not work for people in general, which it clearly does, or that it is
useless, which I don't think it is.

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