title: MANIFEST.in ignored on "python setup.py install" - no data files installed?
body: <p>Here's my stripped-down setup.py script with non-code stuff removed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python
  
  from distutils.core import setup
  from whyteboard.misc import meta
  
  
  setup(
      name = 'Whyteboard',
      version = meta.version,
  
      packages = ['whyteboard', 'whyteboard.gui', 'whyteboard.lib', 'whyteboard.lib.pubsub',
                  'whyteboard.lib.pubsub.core', 'whyteboard.lib.pubsub.utils', 'whyteboard.misc'],
  
      py_modules = ['whyteboard'],
      scripts = ['whyteboard.py'],
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>MANIFEST.in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>include *.txt
  include whyteboard-help/*.*
  recursive-include locale *.mo
  recursive-include images *.png
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run "python setup.py install sdist" I get a nice .tar.gz with a "whyteboard-0.41" root folder, with my locale/ images/ and whyteboard-help/ folders inside. This also has my whyteboard.py script that launches my program from inside the whyteboard source package.</p>
  
  <p>So:</p>
  
  <pre><code>whyteboard/
   ├── locale/
   ├── images
   ├── whyteboard-help/
   ├── whyteboard/
   │  ├── __init__.py
   │  └── other packages etc
   ├── whyteboard.py
   ├── README
   ├── setup.py
   └── CHANGELOG
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This mirrors the source of my program, is how everything should be, and is correct.</p>
  
  <p>However when I run "python setup.py install" none of my data files are written - only the "whyteboard" source package, and the whyteboard.py is placed in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I'd like the same directory structure as what's been generated in the .tar.gz file to be created in dist-packages, as this is how my program expects to look for its resources. </p>
  
  <p>How can I get "install" to create this directory structure? It seems to be ignoring my manifest file, as far as I can tell.</p>