Excluding a top-level directory from a setuptools package

Question

I\'m trying to put a Python project into a tarball using setuptools. The problem is that setuptools doesn\'t appear to like the way that the source tree was originally setu

Answer 1

For similar purpose, my collegue wrote setuptools-dummy package: http://github.com/ella/setuptools-dummy/tree/master

Take a look at setuptools_dummy, modify excludes to your needs and it should work. If not, open an issue ;)