[Distutils] data in a source distribution?

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:48 PM 3/11/2009 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>Am Mittwoch 11 März 2009 02:27:20 schrieb P.J. Eby:
> > You need to specify the data files in your MANIFEST.in file -- the
> > distutils don't do that automatically for you.
>
>Ah - OK.
>
>Thank you!
>
> > Of course, if you use setuptools to create your sdist, and the data
> > files are in revision control, they'll be included
> > automatically.
>
>Is there a chance of setuptools recognizing other systems than SVN and cvs?
>
>I use Mercurial for all my own projects, and the setuptools don't seem to
>recognize that yet.

The first Google result for "setuptools mercurial" is:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hg.setuptools

So, yes.  ;-)