Setuptools - Shipping Additional Files

Situation I createt my setup.py file. Most of it works out of the box but I'm having some trouble by shipping some additional files with it. But I noticed that the following files

Solution 1:

You'll have to use a MANIFEST.in file to list data files that you want included in a source distribution. package_data is only consulted for binary distributions (a great shortcoming).

See The MANIFEST.in template in the distutils documentation.