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

[Thorne, Stephen]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 22:22, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> It would help if you pointed out that this problem also causes "make dist"
> to generate bad tar files.

I've never used "make dist", didn't know that that failed as well ;)

> So now we have some more information. Can you come up with a patch that
> makes it work as intended both in 2.6 and buggy 2.7 and 2.7.x with whatever
> fix upstream might implement?
>
> It would perhaps also be nice to have a patch that verifies that the "make
> dist" tar content actually matches the list generated by Makefile.

I will try and take some time to do all of this in the next few weeks.
Make mercurial work properly on 2.7.1 (which is currently buggy),
write a patch for python 2.7, as well as not breaking anything on
previous pythons.

Stephen