distutils sdist and MANIFEST files
David Fraser
davidf at sjsoft.com
Wed Jun 2 16:50:32 EDT 2004
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> David Fraser wrote:
>
>> Does anyone else find it annoying that the sdist command for distutils
>> relies on MANIFEST.in and MANIFEST files?
>> I would really like to be able to do everything in the setup script ;
>> if I don't, the MANIFEST files get created automatically (with
>> warnings) and any new scripts added are forgotten.
>>
>> Any alternative approaches to this?
>
>
> You can derive from the sdist command and override the read_template
> function.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
Thanks, I'll have a look at this...
David
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