> The README is not "package data" because it's not inside a package. You > can't install package data in a project that only includes modules. In any > case, there's no point in shipping documentation inside an egg, because only > your project's *code* will be able to read it, not humans. Human-readable > documentation only belongs in a source distribution.
I'm writing a command-line program and I was using the README to print help. Should I just copy the README into my module then or is there a better way? > Note that, in general, you do not need to distribute eggs for your project. > The egg format is intended for plugins and other situations that require > pre-built, ready-to-execute binaries. I'm not distributing eggs myself but they're generated by distutils / setuptools when I do python setup.py install or easy_install. I'm new to packaging and pretty confused so I'm possibly doing it wrong. Here's my project on github, if you'd be willing to take a look: <http://github.com/adeel/timed/tree/master>. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig