[Distutils] setup.py sdist not including my README.md

[Eric V. Smith]

And don't forget to include MANIFEST.in in MANIFEST.in.

On 7/16/2014 8:00 AM, Vladimir Diaz wrote:
> Have you tried adding the line "include README.md" to MANIFEST.in?  That
> should do the trick.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Joshua Richardson <jricjr3 at gmail.com
> <mailto:jricjr3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Sorry for the Noob question, but I've been banging my head on this
>     all afternoon.
> 
>     Following some tutorial I found somewhere on PyPI, I created a
>     setup.py which included a line like this:
> 
>     # Get the long description from the relevant file
> 
>     with open(path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
> 
>         long_description = f.read()
> 
> 
>     and then in the setup() function, I pass
> 
> 
>     long_description=long_description
> 
> 
>     Somehow this worked, when I installed the package on my development
>     box (Mac with setuptools 5.1), so I prematurely published it to
>     PyPI.  Unfortunately, when I tried installing it to a fresh CentOS
>     box (setuptools 0.6c5-2.el5), I got this error:
> 
> 
>     Downloading/unpacking Dumper
> 
>       Downloading Dumper-1.0.1.tar.gz
> 
>       Running setup.py egg_info for package Dumper
> 
>     .... <stacktrace omitted, let me know if you need it>
> 
>     IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>     '/tmp/pip-build/Dumper/README.md'
> 
> 
>     So, I checked the tarball and saw that README.md is not in there.  I
>     read the setuptools developer guide, and decided maybe I should try:
> 
>         include_package_data=True,
> 
> 
>     I re-ran "setup.py sdist" and checked the tarball, and the README.md
>     is still not in there.  Ok, maybe because my source-control is git.
>      So, I added a MANIFEST.in, containing one line: "README.md".  Still
>     no luck.  So, I added:
> 
>         package_data={
> 
>             '': ['README.md'],
> 
>         },
> 
> 
>     Still a no-go.  Now I'm feeling stupid.  SOS.
> 
> 
>     Thanks for reading this far!   --josh
> 
> 
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