On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:49 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > At 01:53 AM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> 2009/4/6 P.J. Eby <[email protected]>: >> > At 06:45 PM 4/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello >> >> >> >> After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the >> >> MANIFEST template should be removed. >> >> >> >> I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a >> >> package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern >> >> see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302 >> > >> > What about documentation files, data files, examples, and tests -- all >> > of >> > which might need to be included in an sdist, but would not be "package >> > data"? >> >> that would be data_files, but I am wondering if we should have an explicit >> one for documentation files. > > I mean, *non-installed* documentation, data, examples, and tests -- *none* > of which would be currently listed in data_files.
Right, that would require something else, maybe a new one, ignored by the install command and using the glob-style pattern. This means the glob-style pattern will need to have an exclude mechanism if some non-installed data are inside a directory that is added in package_data (like the tests directory if it's located in the src directory) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
