[Distutils] Where is the setuptools source repository?

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Jul 2 04:44:59 CEST 2009


At 10:33 AM 7/1/2009 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm trying to figure out why my package_data is being ignored. Of 
>course, setuptools ends up being an egg, so it's impossible to pdb through.
>
>So, I thought I'd checkout the setuptools trunk and just use that 
>instead. But where is it?
>
>The closest I could find is:
>
>http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools
>
>...but this has no tags, branches, etc. So is this it?

Yes.  The branches are in /sandbox/branches.

(Btw, 'package_data' will cause things to get included at install 
time, but it does not put them into sdist.  You'll need to use 
MANIFEST.in or a revision-control plugin to get data files included 
in an sdist.)



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