[Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

[Ram Rachum]

David Cournapeau <cournape <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr <at> cool-rr.com> wrote:

> >
> >
> > You said on StackOverflow to look in distutils' docs to read about the 
template
> > language for MANIFEST.in.
> >
> > http://docs.python.org/distutils/commandref.html?highlight=manifest
> >
> > Is this it?
> >
> > It's pretty lame.
> 
> Yes it is, but other options are not better ATM. Including data files
> in a predictible and simple way is a recurrent problem with distutils.
> 
> > Does this really not support Windows?
> 
> It should. I don't remember having problems on windows with
> MANIFEST.in. There also used to be problems where the MANIFEST was not
> regenerated correctly - I almost always remove MANIFEST everytime in
> my setup.py for most of my packages because of this.
> 
> The problem is known, and is being discussed right now for distribute,
> so hopefully things will improve.
> 
> David


I'm really lost here.

Can someone answer these question? Will MANIFEST.in work on Windows? Do I have 
to delete the MANIFEST file every time? Is this the sanest way right now to 
include data files?

Ram.