Re: enhance release experience

I was not aware about the last developments that seem to render MANIFEST.in
obsolete. However while I'm still using it I find this tool very useful:
check-manifest [1]. It even integrates with zest.releaser.


[1]1 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/check-manifest


Rafael Oliveira

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:52 PM, David Glick (Plone) <david.glick-z4DKO/[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 11/17/14, 3:24 PM, Jens W. Klein wrote:
> > so I just wanted to ...
> >
> > release.
> >
> > and i hit a snakepit.
> >
> > It seems today I found two thing we NEVER ever should do in a python
> > package:
> >
> > 1)
> > use symlinks. This will fail. If not now, then in future. But it will.
> > It just increases the chance of a brown bag release enormous.
> >
> > 2)
> > use a MANIFEST.in. Seriously. It seems we just do NOT need it at all.
> > Delete it. Current setuptools seems to work fine w/o, includes all
> > files, given a release is done from a tag checkout (as we do with
> > zestreleaser, jarn.mkrelease, ...). Just add only files meant for
> > release in git, manage your .gitignore careful. Then -  using
> > include_package_data=True, all is in.
> > see also https://twitter.com/narocz/status/534404233827983360
> >
> This is true now even if you don't have setuptools-git in your Python
> environment? That used to be necessary.
>
>
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