distutils question-> Why data_files listed in setup.py being ignored?! How fix?

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, seberino at spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) wrote:

> I have a setup.py with something like this:
>
> import glob
>
> ...                                                                        
>                                                                                 
> setup( ...,
>        ...,
>        data_files = [ ( "pixmaps", glob.glob("pixmaps/*.xpm") ) ]
>        ....
>      )
>                                                                                 
> The tarball I made with "python setup.py sdist" looks good except
> none of the data_files show up in tarball?!?!
>                                                                                 
> How fix?

You have to add them to your MANIFEST.in . Something like:
include pixmaps/*.xpm

setup(scripts=...) has the same problem.

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