Marius Gedminas

Hey, since I'm already running `python setup.py sdist` in a subprocess, all I'd have to do is capture the stderr and show it. Probably.

> jayvdb commented 5 hours from now Hey, can I borrow your time machine? ;)

That makes sense, as long as check-manifest didn't encounter any files it doesn't know how to add. I'm not likely to get around to this soon (new baby in the...

I'd accept such a pull request. I'm unlikely to find time to work on this myself.

Unneeded excludes tend to produce warnings during pip install time, so warning about them seems like a good idea. I'm waiting for the pull request :)

This is complicated by the fact that a line like `prune docs/_build` might appear not to be doing anything if you don't have a `docs/_build` directory at the moment (like...

BTW I would be very interested in seeing concrete examples of situations where you missed such warnings!

Thank you, that is a useful example.

You're right: check-manifest currently ignores file types and just compares recursive directory listings (produced by reading the output of external commands such as `tar xvzf` and `git ls`). I'm not...

I don't quite understand the situation. Any chance for me to reproduce the issue?