:file:`MANIFEST`, you must specify everything: the default set of files
described above does not apply in this case.
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+ :file:`MANIFEST` files start with a comment indicating they are generated.
+ Files without this comment are not overwritten or removed.
+
See :ref:`manifest_template` section for a syntax reference.
.. _manifest-options:
Principle
---------
-.. versionadded:: 2.7
- :file:`MANIFEST` files start with a comment indicating they are generated.
- Files without this comment are not overwritten or removed.
-
The manifest template has one command per line, where each command specifies a
set of files to include or exclude from the source distribution. For an
example, let's look at the Distutils' own manifest template::