Kind of a maintenance pain, and it's just poorly duplicating info
from the git logs. We could autogenerate this but I don't really
have the interest in figuring it out. Patches welcome :)
Was originally added with hopes for being used in an ovirt related
product, but was more or less a code dump, and the author has been
allocated to other things. He confirmed it's okay to remove.
That, and it's currently broken, and we've had approximately 0 user
feedback since it was committed.
With no MANIFEST.in, distutils/setup/sdist gets the filelist
mostly correct except that it adds in whatever is in the
top directory. Using git-ls-files is not a good solution
either because a number of additional files (not git
managed) will be needed.
The solution is to use a MANIFEST.in. All of the
toplevel files which are to be included will need to be
specified. Also, each directory will need to be specified
and unwanted files (e.g., *.pyc) excluded. Other (non-specified)
files and directories will be ignored.
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Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@czarc.net>
Cole Robinson