[Distutils] including an empty directory

[Tarek Ziadé]

I don't know on setuptools side, but in distutils, I don't think
there's any way to include an empty directory
like this, even with a graft in the MANIFEST.in file.

The commands are looking for files to include, then create the
necessary directories in the distribution, to include those files

Can't you add a README.txt file in that directory ?

What is the use case to include an empty directory in a release ?

Regards
Tarek

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Domen Kožar <iElectric at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having issues to include an empty directory to setuptools package.
>
>      package_data={'data':['templates/*tmpl']}
>
> this includes all the files, but there is data/templates/Test
> directory that is empty and there is no way of globing it.
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