Use the buildconfig/MANIFEST.in with setup.py change.

buildconfig/MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
-include Setup.in Setup_Darwin.in Setup_Unix.in Setup_Win_Common.in *.py WHATSNEW readme.rst install.html readme.html LGPL version.py.in
+include README.rst
 
+recursive-include buildconfig *
 recursive-include docs *
-recursive-include lib *
-recursive-include src *
+recursive-include src_py *
+recursive-include src_c *
 recursive-include examples *
 recursive-include test *
 prune */CVS
 prune */*/CVS
+prune buildconfig/ci
+prune buildconfig/ci/*
+prune buildconfig/ci/*/*
+prune buildconfig/manylinux-build
+prune buildconfig/manylinux-build/*
+prune buildconfig/manylinux-build/*/*
+prune buildconfig/manylinux-build/*/*/*

setup.py

@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ def compilation_help():
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
 from distutils.extension import read_setup_file
 from distutils.command.install_data import install_data
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
 
 
 revision = ''
@@ -433,6 +434,15 @@ def run(self):
 cmdclass['install_data'] = smart_install_data
 
 
+class OurSdist(sdist):
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        sdist.initialize_options(self)
+        # we do not want MANIFEST.in to appear in the root cluttering up things.
+        self.template = os.path.join('buildconfig', 'MANIFEST.in')
+
+cmdclass['sdist'] = OurSdist
+
+
 if "bdist_msi" in sys.argv:
     # if you are making an msi, we want it to overwrite files
     # we also want to include the repository revision in the file name
@@ -653,6 +663,3 @@ def remove_old_files():
         remove_old_files()
     except:
         pass
-
-
-