[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[David Cournapeau]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
>
> "Lower system"? What would that be? This is about if we should support
> getting a file list from the VCS or not to determine what files should
> go in a sdist.

We can argue all day long - but since there is a disagreement, there is
only two issues: either someone decides for one behavior or the other,
or we acknowledge our difference and decide on less ambitious goals to
build other tools above.

>  I have a hard time envisioning anything "lower" than
> that.
>   

Why so ? Few packaging system use the VCS as the lower system to know
what goes in a distribution, most of them (regardless of the platform:
windows, unix, mac os x) uses something more low level than this at the
implementation level.

cheers,

David