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Check MANIFEST.in in a Python source package for completeness

Project description

check-manifest

buildstatus coverage

Are you a Python developer? Have you uploaded packages to the Python Package Index? Have you accidentally uploaded broken packages with some files missing? If so, check-manifest is for you.

Quick start

$ pip install check-manifest

$ cd ~/src/mygreatpackage
$ check-manifest

You can ask the script to help you update your MANIFEST.in:

$ check-manifest -u -v
listing source files under version control: 6 files and directories
building an sdist: check-manifest-0.7.tar.gz: 4 files and directories
lists of files in version control and sdist do not match!
missing from sdist:
  tests.py
  tox.ini
suggested MANIFEST.in rules:
  include *.py
  include tox.ini
updating MANIFEST.in

$ cat MANIFEST.in
include *.rst

# added by check_manifest.py
include *.py
include tox.ini

Command-line reference

$ check-manifest --help
usage: check-manifest [-h] [--version] [-v] [-c] [-u] [-p PYTHON]
                      [--ignore patterns]
                      [source_tree]

Check a Python MANIFEST.in file for completeness

positional arguments:
  source_tree           location for the source tree (default: .)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose         more verbose output (default: False)
  -c, --create          create a MANIFEST.in if missing (default: False)
  -u, --update          append suggestions to MANIFEST.in (implies --create)
                        (default: False)
  -p PYTHON, --python PYTHON
                        use this Python interpreter for running setup.py sdist
                        (default: /home/mg/.venv/bin/python)
  --ignore patterns     ignore files/directories matching these comma-
                        separated patterns (default: None)

Configuration

You can tell check-manifest to ignore certain file patterns by adding a check-manifest section to your package’s setup.cfg. Example:

[check-manifest]
ignore =
    .travis.yml

The following options are recognized:

ignore

A list of newline separated filename patterns that will be ignored by check-manifest. Use this if you want to keep files in your version control system that shouldn’t be included in your source distributions. The default ignore list is

PKG-INFO
*.egg-info
*.egg-info/*
setup.cfg
.hgtags
.hgignore
.gitignore
.bzrignore
*.mo
ignore-default-rules

If set to true, your ignore patterns will replace the default ignore list instead of adding to it.

Changelog

0.26 (2015-10-30)

  • Do not complain about missing .gitattributes file.

  • Normalize unicode representation and case of filenames. (issue #47).

  • Drop Python 2.6 support.

  • Support installation via zc.buildout better (issue #35).

0.25 (2015-05-27)

  • Stop dynamic computation of install_requires in setup.py: this doesn’t work well in the presence of the pip 7 wheel cache. Use PEP-426 environment markers instead (this means we now require setuptools version 0.7 or newer).

0.24 (2015-03-26)

  • Make sure setup.py not being added to the VCS doesn’t cause hard-to-understand errors (issue #46).

0.23 (2015-02-12)

  • More reliable svn status parsing; now handles svn externals (issue #45).

  • The test suite now skips tests for version control systems that aren’t installed (issue #42).

0.22 (2014-12-23)

  • More terse output by default; use the new -v (--verbose) flag to see all the details.

  • Warn the user if MANIFEST.in is missing (issue #31).

  • Fix IOError when files listed under version control are missing (issue #32).

  • Improved wording of the match/do not match messages (issue #34).

  • Handle a relative –python path (issue #36).

  • Warn about leading and trailing slashes in MANIFEST.in (issue #37).

  • Ignore .travis.yml by default (issue #39).

  • Suggest a rule for Makefile found deeper in the source tree.

0.21 (2014-06-13)

  • Don’t drop setup.cfg when copying version-controlled files into a clean temporary directory (issue #29).

0.20 (2014-05-14)

  • Restore warning about files included in the sdist but not added to the version control system (issue #27).

  • Fix check-manifest relative/pathname (issue #28).

0.19 (2014-02-09)

  • More correct MANIFEST.in parsing for exclusion rules.

  • Some effort was expended towards Windows compatibility.

  • Handles non-ASCII filenames, as long as they’re valid in your locale (issue #23, #25).

0.18 (2014-01-30)

  • Friendlier error message when an external command cannot be found (issue #21).

  • Add suggestion pattern for .coveragerc.

  • Python 2.6 support (issue #22).

0.17 (2013-10-10)

  • Read the existing MANIFEST.in file for files to ignore (issue #19).

0.16 (2013-10-01)

  • Fix Subversion status parsing in the presence of svn usernames longer than 12 characters (issue #18).

0.15 (2013-09-20)

  • Normalize the paths of all files, avoiding some duplicate misses of directories. (issue #16). [maurits]

0.14 (2013-08-28)

  • Supports packages that do not live in the root of a version control repository (issue #15).

  • More reliable svn support: detect files that have been added but not committed (or committed but not updated).

  • Licence changed from GPL (v2 or later) to MIT (issue #12).

0.13 (2013-07-31)

  • New command line option: –ignore (issue #11). Contributed by Steven Myint.

  • New command line option: -p, –python. Defaults to the Python you used to run check-manifest. Fixes issues with packages that require Python 3 to run setup.py (issue #13).

0.12 (2013-05-15)

  • Add suggestion pattern for Makefile.

  • More generic suggestion patterns, should cover almost anything.

  • zest.releaser integration: skip check-release for non-Python packages (issue #9).

0.11 (2013-03-20)

  • Make sure MANIFEST.in is not ignored even if it hasn’t been added to the VCS yet (issue #7).

0.10 (2013-03-17)

  • check-manifest --version now prints the version number.

  • Don’t apologize for not adding rules for directories (especially after adding rules that include files inside that directory).

  • Python 3 support contributed by Steven Myint.

  • Default ignore patterns can be configured in setup.cfg (issue #3).

0.9 (2013-03-06)

  • Add suggestion pattern for .travis.yml.

  • When check-manifest -u (or -c) doesn’t know how to write a rule matching a particular file, it now apologizes explicitly.

  • Copy the source tree to a temporary directory before running python setup.py sdist to avoid side effects from setuptools plugins or stale *.egg-info/SOURCES.txt files (issue #1).

  • Warn if *.egg-info or *.mo is actually checked into the VCS.

  • Don’t complain if *.mo files are present in the sdist but not in the VCS (issue #2).

0.8 (2013-03-06)

  • Entry point for zest.releaser. If you install both zest.releaser and check-manifest, you will be asked if you want to check your manifest during fullrelease.

0.7 (2013-03-05)

  • First release available from the Python Package Index.

  • Moved from https://gist.github.com/4277075 to https://github.com/mgedmin/check-manifest

  • Added README.rst, CHANGES.rst, setup.py, tox.ini (but no real tests yet), MANIFEST.in, and a Makefile.

  • Fixed a bug in error reporting (when setup.py failed, the user would get TypeError: descriptor ‘__init__’ requires a ‘exceptions.Exception’ object but received a ‘str’).

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