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Please include docs dir in PyPI tarball #358
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Originally opened by
@sandrotosion 2020-05-09 20:47:31 in encode/httpx
Hello,
i'm packaging httpx for Debian; we like to provide our uses with offline documentation, so it would be extremely helpful if you could include the docs dir in the pypi tarball, so that we can build it and ship it with our binary packages.
thanks for considering,
Sandro
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Kludex commentedon May 11, 2026
Hi there,
Sure, that sounds sensible to me! I think it’s a matter of adding the docs/ directory to the MANIFEST - maybe with
graft. Anyone up for a PR for this can validate locally by runningpython setup.py build.Kludex commentedon May 11, 2026
If we're going to to do this, then I'd want to be doing so consistently across encode projects, so there's a fairly high bar to us accepting a change like this.
Personally I don't really understand the value or motivation in re-packaging tests & docs alongside the installable package, it just isn't clear to me why that'd be a valuable thing to do. However there'd be a case to make for it if there's clearly a strong community consensus around this, so what do the following packages do wrt. packaging tests & docs?...
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