Python setuptools package_data - pip fails on subfolders
Question: I am trying to make my own pip package installation to work and I have
troubles with subfolders in additional data specified in package_data.
Everything seems to be fine (all data are included in produced .zip file), but
when I run "pip install myapp", it says: "error: can't copy
'myapp\web\styles': doesn't exist or not a regular file"

Dirtree:

    
    
    projectDir
      setup.py
      myapp
        __init__.py
        webapp.py
        web
          index.html
          styles
            style.css
    

setup.py:

    
    
    from setuptools import setup
        setup (
            zip_safe = False,
            name = "myapp",
            version = "0.1",
            packages = ["myapp"],
            include_package_data = True,
            package_data = {
                "myapp": ["web/*", "web/styles/*"]
            }
        )
    

Command to create package:

    
    
    python setup.py sdist
    

Command to install:

    
    
    pip install myapp-0.1.zip
    

I have even try to specify MANIFEST.in (with no success):

    
    
    include myapp/web/*.*
    include myapp/web/styles/*.*
    

When I specify only MANIFEST.in withou package_data, installation success, but
there are no files in site-packages/myapp/web so no package_data were copied.

I am quite desperate because I haven't found any suggestion what I am doing
wrong and I have spent long time to make it work.

Thaks for any advice.


Answer: Ok, so I have a solution: I have used only MANIFEST.in and removed
package_data from setup.py and everything works fine. I thought I have tried
this before, but I was wrong.

