Hi Paul! On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 12:59:43PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > The packaging is in git, yes. I suppose what I don't understand is the role > of > setuptools_scm in building a package for installation (or the construction of > a binary package). A source package will aim to incorporate all of the > tracked > files, but a built/binary package may not.
setuptools_scm ships an entry point in [setuptools.file_finders] group, so when you are building a package from a git checkout, it automatically includes all files which are tracked in git. In one of my packages, I had a similar situation that some files were missing when not building from git. At first I wanted to fix it by adding the missing files to MANIFEST.in [1]. But then upstream suggested a different approach, using setuptools_scm's support for git archives [2]. So we went this way [3]. Maybe you can use any of these two approaches in your package, too. [1]: https://github.com/Python-SIP/sip/pull/28 [2]: https://setuptools-scm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/#git-archives [3]: https://github.com/Python-SIP/sip/pull/30 -- Dmitry Shachnev
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