[Distutils] Where is the setuptools source repository?

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> 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


Interesting.  I didn't realize that this changed.  This works at least  
as far back as Python 2.4, so if it changed, it changed some time  
ago.  Of course, the documentation:

   http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-package-data

indicates it should work. It also indicates that this option is new in  
Python 2.4.

Jim


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