[Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

[Tres Seaver]

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 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.

I want *less* stuff (ideally nothing) spelled in imperative Python, with
some common declarative file replacing both the information currently in
setup.py and MANIFEST.in.  I thought we were in agreement that
non-introspectable metadata was a Bad Thing(TM)?

  http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata



Tres.
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