On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:15:43AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> On 20 September 2013 00:02, Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I will point out that even with setuptools 1.1.6, sdist isn't picking up > >> > all > >> > the files in version control, as I have a few other files under version > >> > control in my package that I didn't list for package_data. So, I still > >> > think > >> > there is an issue with crawling an SVN 1.7 repository. > >> > >> That part I have no idea about :) > > > > I would recommend not relying on setuptools version control magic. > > Instead write a MANIFEST.in. > > It appears that MANIFEST.in is ignored if setuptools recognizes your > VCS. Although there's so much magic in this particular facet of > setuptools that I never have much confidence in my understanding.
This is why check-manifest runs 'python setup.py sdist' in a clean exported directory with no VCS metadata for verification. > Did setuptools recently learn about git? For a while, an advantage of > git was that setuptools ignored it. I don't believe the setuptools-git plugin was ever merged into the core. > I would love an option to ignore VCS and let me specify what I > want *explicitly*. Marius Gedminas -- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
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