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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-python <gentoo-python@l.g.o>, Gentoo Python Project <python@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-python] Re: distutils-r1, setuptools and egg_info mess
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:33:28
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40z7rM3sYjhDV8wgK-aXmR6EM6EhgnP6DepcwiMgh3x2Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-python] distutils-r1, setuptools and egg_info mess by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > However, setuptools folk decided that explicitly listing installed
3 > files was too cumbersome and added some 'smart' logic to find them
4 > automatically. As a result, setuptools interacts with the VCS to check
5 > which files are part of the repository, and installs those files
6 > automatically.
7 >
8
9 Here's a link to the docs on this, in case anyone is interested.
10
11 http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#including-data-files