David Cournapeau <cournape <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr <at> cool-rr.com> wrote:
> > > > > > You said on StackOverflow to look in distutils' docs to read about the template > > language for MANIFEST.in. > > > > http://docs.python.org/distutils/commandref.html?highlight=manifest > > > > Is this it? > > > > It's pretty lame. > > Yes it is, but other options are not better ATM. Including data files > in a predictible and simple way is a recurrent problem with distutils. > > > Does this really not support Windows? > > It should. I don't remember having problems on windows with > MANIFEST.in. There also used to be problems where the MANIFEST was not > regenerated correctly - I almost always remove MANIFEST everytime in > my setup.py for most of my packages because of this. > > The problem is known, and is being discussed right now for distribute, > so hopefully things will improve. > > David I'm really lost here. Can someone answer these question? Will MANIFEST.in work on Windows? Do I have to delete the MANIFEST file every time? Is this the sanest way right now to include data files? Ram. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
