Include README.markdown and LICENCE.txt in tarballs

[Chris St. Pierre]

I've posed dicttoxml for inclusion in Fedora and EPEL (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084199), and they'd like the licence included in the tarball so that there's more of a guarantee that the LICENSE file for a given release agrees with the actual license for that release. Would it be possible to include LICENSE.txt (and, ideally, README.markdown) in the release tarballs in the future?

Thanks!

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

The solution for this is to include a MANIFEST.in in the sources containing

include README.markdown LICENSE.txt

This way python setup.py sdist will automatically include those files

[Chris St. Pierre]

Thanks, I wasn't sure how the tarballs were created for this project since they're stored in Git itself, which is a pattern I hadn't seen before. Closing this in favor of #16.

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

Yeah that's just that the dist folder should be ignored from the sources and instead upstream should tag the releases in git :)

You as packager should rely on pypi though ;-)

[Ryan McGreal]

Thank you for raising this issue. I agree completely with your reasoning and approach and will merge your pull request this evening.