[Distutils] including an empty directory

[Domen Kožar]

Usage is to dispatch Paste templates http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html#templates.

And the dir must be empty, for some reasons.

So this distutils syntax does not work (interesting though, as it does
create the dir in the egg, it's just not copied)

On Jan 25, 12:18 am, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <iElect... 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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