[Distutils] [Trac] Re: Help packaging plugin : Source distribution

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:43 PM 5/22/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > At 11:15 AM 5/20/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jeff Hammel <jhammel at openplans.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > You have to verbosely include them with package data.  IMHO, this is a
> >> > setuptools bug.  E.g.:
> >> >
> >> >      package_data={ 'geotrac': ['templates/*', 'htdocs/*'] },
> >> >      include_package_data=True,
> >> >
> >> > This is probably not quite right :(, but you get the idea.
> >>
> >> I just tried this and doesnt include files for sdist ... :(
> >>
> >> Looking forward for further hints : maybe it's just something I'm
> >> doing wrong, dont know, but eggs are ok so I'm not sure
> >
> > If you are not using a revision control system plugin, you will 
> have to list
> > sdist files in MANIFEST.in;
>
>Thanks, I included files in MANIFEST.in now I can distribute source
>packages for TracGViz [1]_ & TracPyTppTheme [2]_ so that EGGs can be
>built for different Py versions or whatever ...
>
>So this is the way !
>
>PS: BTW , I dont get the idea about specifying things twice (I mean
>package_data & MANIFEST.in ;) Is there a «logical» reason for this ? I
>mean why sdist doesnt look for the data specified in package_data ? Or
>alternately, what is the reason for having MANIFEST.in too ?

That's what distutils does.  setuptools improves on it by adding 
revision control support.  But if you don't use a revision control 
plugin or some other sort of file finder, you have to do it the old 
distutils way.