[Distutils] setup.py#package_data - howto include entire folder when installing

[Aljoša Mohorović]

2010/2/11 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> How is your project organized precisely ?
> Depending on the layout you might need to use the "package_dir" option,

ROOT
 | - > mypkg/
 | - > data/
 | - > MANIFEST.in
 | - > setup.py

$ cat MANIFEST.in
recursive-include data *.css *.js *.jpg *.gif *.png *.html

$ cat setup.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='test-pkg',
    packages = find_packages(),
    include_package_data = True,
    package_data = {
        '': ['data'],
    },
)