[Distutils] Data files with setuptools

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-07-27 11:29, Adeel Ahmad Khan wrote:
>> The README is not "package data" because it's not inside a package.  You
>> can't install package data in a project that only includes modules.  In any
>> case, there's no point in shipping documentation inside an egg, because only
>> your project's *code* will be able to read it, not humans.  Human-readable
>> documentation only belongs in a source distribution.
>
> I'm writing a command-line program and I was using the README to print
> help.  Should I just copy the README into my module then or is there a
> better way?

Most likely, the README and the help text should be different. READMEs need 
information like how to install the program. Help text does not.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco