[Distutils] Packaging of files, which aren't in the package root folder

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:44 PM 12/20/2009 +0100, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote:
>I found a simpler way to do this - Is there any drawback if I try to solve
>this problem using this way:

Yes.  The --record option to the install command will be broken (due 
to not including the directly-copied files).

(And that's only the *first* problem that comes to mind.  I'm pretty 
sure there are others.)