[Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If anyone wants to work on it, or comment,
>
> Some comments:
>
>> "MANIFEST.in is fine"
>
> Except that it introduces Yet Another Domain Specific Language. Wtf
> does "prune" mean? It's not obvious. The docs indicate that it
> actually excludes, but why it's not called "exclude" is then strange.
> We already have a language, Python. We don't need more. ;-)
>
> And the fact that is uses a separate file doesn't help.
>
> Yes, I know I'm just whining. But I don't agree that MANIFEST.in is
> fine. I think it is unfine. :)

I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of
a pure python description. Then people strongly objected.

Tarek