[Distutils] Where is the setuptools source repository?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:44 AM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 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.)

At distutils level, that's not true anymore with the current distutils
trunk though, which includes
package_data files without having to put them in the MANIFEST template

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