zeromq/pyzmq — Issue #169: PyPi tarball packages missing "MANIFEST.in" file
Author: rafrombrc
Created: 2012-01-28 01:47:50+00:00
State: open

Both the 2.0.11 and 2.0.10 tarball packages (the only ones I checked) available for download are missing the MANIFEST.in file. This is problematic because it means that running "python setup.py sdist" on the source tree generated by one of these tarballs will create a broken package, missing buildutils.py, setupegg.py, and zmqversion.py at the top of the source tree alongside setup.py.

I'm trying to use pypi2rpm (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypi2rpm) to generate pyzmq RPMs that can be used in our production environment, but it doesn't work b/c it's using sdist as described above and is thus generating broken packages. Having scripts that download packages from PyPi and then repackage them for a particular environment seems to me a reasonable use case, making sure that MANIFEST.in is included in your packages would make this work again.

Thanks!