[Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 19:12, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> 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.

But how would it break? It would in that case possibly include *more*
files, as it instead would default to including everything, and not
only VCS files, so you might get intermediary build files included as
well, in worst case. Or Alice's project file, or similar.

But the distribution would not be exactly the same, this is true. Is
that a problem?

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