[PATCH] distutils: Add MANIFEST.in file to include all files in 'python setup.py sdist'

[Thorne, Stephen]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Thorne, Stephen <stephen at thorne.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> $ rm MANIFEST
>> $ make MANIFEST > /dev/null
>> $ grep util.h MANIFEST
>> mercurial/util.h
>> $ grep pure MANIFEST
>> mercurial/pure/base85.py
>> mercurial/pure/bdiff.py
>> mercurial/pure/diffhelpers.py
>> mercurial/pure/mpatch.py
>> mercurial/pure/osutil.py
>> mercurial/pure/parsers.py
>
> Yep. I see those in the MANIFEST that's generated by the Makefile.
> Follow those commands with these commands:
>
> $ rm -rf dist
> $ python setup.py sdist > /dev/null
> warning: sdist: manifest template 'MANIFEST.in' does not exist (using
> default file list)
>
> $ tar -tvf dist/mercurial*.tar.gz | grep util.h
> $
>
> And  you see where the problem is.

Further to this, I believe this is actually a python2.7 regression.
MANIFEST from the makefile works fine on python2.6, this bug in the
python bug tracker is relevent: http://bugs.python.org/issue11104

Stephen.