[Distutils] sdist README.rst without MANIFEST

[Lennart Regebro]

For plain distutils, I don't think so. Setuptools will include it if
it's included in the version control, but it seems that consensus is
moving towards always having a MANIFEST.in.

check-manifest is a useful tool here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/check-manifest/0.17

It integrates nicely with zest.releaser as well.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zest.releaser


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:18 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use this in setup.py:
>     ..
>     long_description = open('README.rst', 'rb').read(),
>     ..
>
> Which fails during installation, because README.rst is not shipped.
> The usual way to include is through MANIFEST.in
>
>     http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/sourcedist.html
>
> Is it possible to include README.rst with source distribution, but
> without creating yet another file? Is it possible to specify includes
> in setup.py?
> --
> anatoly t.
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