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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst index 2cfdf69..739964e 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst @@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ This mechanism can be used when the default list of files is not enough. Principle --------- +.. versionadded:: 2.7 + :file:`MANIFEST` files start with a comment indicated they are generated. + Files without this comment are not overwritten or removed. + The manifest template has one command per line, where each command specifies a set of files to include or exclude from the source distribution. For an example, let's look at the Distutils' own manifest template:: @@ -268,3 +272,7 @@ character, and ``[range]`` matches any of the characters in *range* (e.g., character" is platform-specific: on Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows anything except backslash or colon. +.. versionchanged:: 2.7 + An existing generated :file:`MANIFEST` will be regenerated without + :command:`sdist` comparing its modification time to the one of + :file:`MANIFEST.in` or :file:`setup.py`. |