[issue2279] distutils sdist add_defaults does not add data_files

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

2009/2/17 George Sakkis <report at bugs.python.org>:
>> Maybe that could be a new feature ?
>
> That would be nice, especially if we want to reimplement MANIFEST.in as
> setup() option at some point. My current implementation doesn't extend
> the API, so there's no way to specify a subset of files under a
> directory like recursive-include; every directory matched by a glob is
> copied in whole (recursively):

Please could you add a feature request ?

We will need to discuss it there.

>
> import os
> from distutils.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
>
> class build_py(_build_py):
>    def find_data_files(self, package, src_dir):
>        files = []
>        for p in _build_py.find_data_files(self, package, src_dir):
>            if os.path.isdir(p):
>                files.extend(os.path.join(par,f)
>                             for par,dirs,files in os.walk(p)
>                             for f in files)
>            else:
>                files.append(p)
>        return files

> If it's a bug, it's certainly not accidental; there's a big XXX comment
> justifying this choice but I'm not convinced. I posted about it at
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-January/524263.html;
> if you think it's a bug I'll fill an issue.

Please do so, I am focusing on the Distutils-SIG ML , so I missed it

I don't know yet what is a proper way to adress this, but the bug tracker seem
apprioriate for this.

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