On Jul 2, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
(Btw, 'package_data' will cause things to get included at install
time,
but
it does not put them into sdist. You'll need to use MANIFEST.in
or a
revision-control plugin to get data files included in an sdist.)
At distutils level, that's not true anymore with the current
distutils
trunk though, which includes
package_data files without having to put them in the MANIFEST
template
Interesting. I didn't realize that this changed. This works at
least as
far back as Python 2.4, so if it changed, it changed some time
ago. Of
course, the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-package-data
indicates it should work. It also indicates that this option is new
in
Python 2.4.
I can't find in the svn logs such changes. Are we talking about the
same issue ?
e.g. being forced to define package_data files in the MANIFEST.in
template to have them included
by sdist ?
What happened is that someone added an issue complaining that defined
package_data were
not installed, *unless* defined in the MANIFEST.in,
Gaaaa. Being more careful in my experimentation, I've found that
package_data only seems to work if setuptools is used. What's worse,
only files checked into svn are included even when using package_data,
so my theory about package_data being explicit and not dependent on
the revision control system uses is wrong. :(
Jim
Of course, it's depressing that a packaging system requires so much
experimentation to understand.
--
Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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