New submission from George Sakkis <george.sak...@gmail.com>: Currently each glob defined in package_data must match files only; if it matches a directory, it raises an exception later when calling copy_file(). This means that a glob like 'mydata/*' will fail if there is any subdirectory under 'mydata'. One simple useful change would be to allow a glob match a directory and interpret it as a recursive inclusion of the directory.
A more general feature request (perhaps a separate ticket) would be to port to setup() the logic currently expressed in MANIFEST.in. In the long term, MF.in should IMO be deprecated because (a) it's a second file one has to remember to write and maintain in addition to setup.py (b) has its own ad-hoc syntax instead of python and (c) overlaps in scope with package_data and data_files of setup.py. The exact API exposing MF.in's functionality can be decided after (and if) there is consensus on deprecating/replacing it. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 82378 nosy: gsakkis, tarek severity: normal status: open title: Allow package_data globs match directories type: feature request _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5302> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
