[Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 15:00:32 CET 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
>> > http://docs.python.org/distutils/commandref.html?highlight=manifest
>> >
>> > Is this it?
>> >
>> > It's pretty lame.

Contribution to the doc is always welcome.

> I'm really lost here.
>
> Can someone answer these question? Will MANIFEST.in work on Windows?

yes.

> Do I have to delete the MANIFEST file every time?

no. if you change MANIFEST.in, MANIFEST is rebuilt. You have to re-run
the sdist command though.

> Is this the sanest way right now to include data files?

yes.


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