Feature Request: Include folder without being installed

[msiemens]

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Feature Request

I'd like to include tests in my project within the distributed source distribution. But of course I don't want the tests to be installed as a package.

My project layout is like this:

- project_name
- tests

When I set includes = ['tests/*'], the tests will be installed as a package. This is due to the generated setup.py file containing:

package_data = \
{'': ['*']}

This means that all Python packages are installed which includes the tests folder. But I want to include the tests in the source package WITHOUT them being installed.

[JWCook]

I was trying to figure this out as well, and I think this works the way you want if you use include instead of packages. Also,
the per-format packages support added in #1133 appears to also apply to include, although I don't see that in the docs.

include = [
    { path = "tests", format = "sdist" }
]

I noticed this in poetry's own pyproject.toml, recently updated in #4007.

[finswimmer]

Works exactly as @JWCook said 👍

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