> there was actually a recent discussion on this list, discouraging from > using PyPI in favor of github, since GH tarball usually contains docs, > tests, and other files useful when building from source, usually not > included in tarball released to users, ie pypi
That's an upstream bug then, and upstream should fix that and ship a complete source tarball. I always submit pull requests updating MANIFEST.in and until now, all upstreams have accepted them. -nik