[Distutils] [RFC] Python 2.7 Distutils extra features

[John Gabriele]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> - a new option for sdist called 'extra_files', that will allow to list
> extra files to be included in the distribution. these
>  files will not be installed by 'install', just be part of the distribution.
>
> Any comments ?

Would this replace the need for MANIFEST.in?

If not, what would MANIFEST.in still be used for?