source package does not include data

[step21]

While trying to make a conda package - I found out that the source package does not include the data, and thus cannot be used successfully. Ideally, I think the data (json files) should be included. At least in the source package I also did not find a way to generate this data. (such as courts_db/data/*.json)

[step21]

according to this the package_data specified in setup.py only works for binary dists, whereas Manifest.in works for both.

[mlissner]

@flooie can you take a look at this? I just looked through all of the versions of courts-db that have ever been on PyPi and none of them include the actual court data. Seems like it's possible we never installed the package and nobody else did either? Maybe they did but gave up?

[mlissner]

See also: #35

[step21]

What is more likely in my opinion, they just installed the wheel (*.whl) which does seem to contain them. It is just a zip file with another extension. Most of the time there is no need for the source distribution because courts-db doesn't contain compiled files afaik, so they just used that.