[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where in this is there a "lower level"?
>
> Number 1 could be the simple lower level, a list of files (I'm not
> saying this is a good choice, I haven't studied all the issues good
> enough).  That way the tool you use to consume setup.py (or
> whatever it becomes) can construct this list from your VCS in an
> automated fashion if you do like that.

That's an egg-and-chicken issue.

This is the MANIFEST final file, built by all the different mentioned
techniques.

> But it avoids having the VCS
> dependency inside distutils.

Maybe we could think about a plugin system to build this list. (a bit
the way vcs plugins works in setuptools)

Distutils would provide a default plugin and people will be able to
register their own
plugins. I'll write a small proposal for this.

(I hope this won't create a new flame here)

Regards
Tarek