Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> added the comment:

As far as I've been able to tell there is no proposed syntax in the docs 
specifically for package_data.  The docs for the resources option seems to 
suggest separating globs with spaces, which would be fine by me (wouldn't allow 
paths that contain spaces, but that's a bad idea anyways).

I think that allowing one glob string on each line is more readable, but I'm 
not too attached either way.  Another possibility would be to allow line breaks 
in the value, for example:

package data = 
    mypackage = templates/*.html
                static/css/*.css

But that's getting a little more complex syntax-wise.

Agreed on getting rid of data_files--it's dangerous.  But package_data I find 
very useful sometimes, and I don't think it's always wrong.  At the very least, 
it's not clear to me how the above use case is intended to be replaced.

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