[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 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).
> 
> Without a MANIFEST.in, the egg resulting from an sdist that is
> easy_installed is the same as a bdist_egg, right?  Indeed when I try
> that for plone.portlet.static this is the case.  So having a
> MANIFEST.in makes no real difference in that regard.

I'm not sure what you mean. The basic algorihm is:

- MANIFEST is used to determine what is installed, or
- subversion workingcopy information is used to determine what is installed, or
- a default ruleset is used

This algorithm is used at the moment a 'binary installation' is made,
which is either when you build an egg using setup.py bdist_egg or when
you install an egg from source (ie from a sdist or an unpacked tree).

You can find full documentation on
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

Wichert.

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