[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:20:11AM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> OK, here is a usecase. I have a directoy with a module, foo.bar. I
> have also in that directory saved a project file from my IDE, because
> naturally I save a project file into the directory of every project I
> have. But since that's not a part of the module itself I never check
> it in.
> 
> My friend Bobo, however, does not use an IDE, and does not create a
> project file.
> 
> In case number one, I specify the files to be included with a wildcard.
> 
> In case number two, I do not specify the files to be included at all,
> but let sdist determine the files by looking at which files are
> version controlled.
> 
> Now, in which of these cases will the sdist created by me an d by Bobo
> be identical? Right. In the one where the file list is determined by
> which files are version controlled. Can we then really say that this
> case is more dependent on the environment?

Consider a different use case: my friend's friend Alice does not like
svn.  She uses git-svn to get a local git repository containing a copy
of the subversion code.  She then uses the usual 'python setup.py sdist'
build process.  It produces a broken distribution (silently) because
setuptools doesn't support git, and Alice didn't know she had to install
a plugin.

Users don't expect version control system metadata to have an influence
on the build process (other than recording the revision number/ID
somewhere in the built package).

Marius Gedminas
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