[Zope-CMF] Re: License file question

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Maurits van Rees wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman, on 2008-05-29:
> > Previously Maurits van Rees wrote:
> >> Wichert Akkerman, on 2008-05-29:
> >> > Previously Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> >> >> >But personally I like having it inside the "main"
> >> >> >folder, so in your example above it would be
> >> >> >incf.applications/incf/applications/HISTORY.txt 
> >> >> 
> >> >> There's some benefit to that because it'll be part of the egg.
> >> >
> >> > You probably want to use a MANIFEST.in anyway and that can easily be
> >> > used to include everything in doc/ or other places.
> >> 
> >> A 'python setup.py sdist' will include the docs directory, as long as
> >> it is in subversion (and has at least one file in it).
> >
> > And when someone installs from that sdist and there is no MANIFEST.in
> > you suddenly end up with installs which are missing data files, zcml
> > files or other things. 
> 
> Is there a difference in that regard between easy installing an sdist
> or a bdist_egg?  I would think/hope that the end result is the same.

Yes. If you make the bdist_egg from a svn checkout it includes all files
that are in subversion. If you make an egg from something else like a
sdist or a svn export that does not happen (since the svn information is
not available).

Wichert.

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