[Distutils] Deviation between distutils and setuptools over package_data

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:15:43AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >> On 20 September 2013 00:02, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I will point out that even with setuptools 1.1.6, sdist isn't picking up all
> >> > the files in version control, as I have a few other files under version
> >> > control in my package that I didn't list for package_data. So, I still think
> >> > there is an issue with crawling an SVN 1.7 repository.
> >>
> >> That part I have no idea about :)
> >
> > I would recommend not relying on setuptools version control magic.
> > Instead write a MANIFEST.in.
> 
> It appears that MANIFEST.in is ignored if setuptools recognizes your
> VCS.  Although there's so much magic in this particular facet of
> setuptools that I never have much confidence in my understanding.

This is why check-manifest runs 'python setup.py sdist' in a clean
exported directory with no VCS metadata for verification.

> Did setuptools recently learn about git?  For a while, an advantage of
> git was that setuptools ignored it.

I don't believe the setuptools-git plugin was ever merged into the core.

> I would love an option to ignore VCS and let me specify what I
> want *explicitly*.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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