Explicitely exclude files that does not need to show up in "missing from sdist"

[gotcha]

I think my distributions should not hold files like .travis.yml or bootstrap.py even though they are checked in.

This is why I'd like to exclude them explicitly from check-manifest verification.

[mgedmin]

Good point about .travis.yml. It doesn't make sense in a sdist.

I'm less certain about bootstrap.py (and, presumably, buildout.cfg and similar files). I think it's time to make check-manifest configurable. I already suggested (in issue #2) a setup.cfg section like

[check-manifest]
ignore = bootstrap.py

I'd appreciate some help with this:

• what's the formal syntax for setup.cfg? Is it typically parsed with ConfigParser?
• what's the convention for lists of values in a setup.cfg? Space separated, comma separated, newline-separated?
• I'd like ignore = ... to add to the default ignore list. There should also be a way to replace the list in its entirety. What would be a good syntax for that?

[gotcha]

zest.releaser reads options from setup.cfg

They use ConfigParser.

[mgedmin]

That answers one of my three questions ;)

[mgedmin]

Okay, strawman proposal time: use ConfigParser to read setup.cfg like the following example:

[check-manifest]
default-ignore-rules = false
ignore =
    .gitignore
    *.egg-info
    *.mo
    bootstrap.py
    buildout.cfg

I still don't know when I might find the time to work on this.

[mgedmin]

Fixed in 0.10.

[gotcha]

Great ! Thanks