diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/1385.doc.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/setuptools.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/1385.doc.rst b/changelog.d/1385.doc.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7bd88e8f --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/1385.doc.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Removed section on non-package data files. diff --git a/docs/setuptools.txt b/docs/setuptools.txt index 4d9278e3..c82dc511 100644 --- a/docs/setuptools.txt +++ b/docs/setuptools.txt @@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ Non-Package Data Files ---------------------- Historically, ``setuptools`` by way of ``easy_install`` would encapsulate data -files from the distribution into the egg (see `this reference +files from the distribution into the egg (see `the old docs <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/52aacd5b276fedd6849c3a648a0014f5da563e93/docs/setuptools.txt#L970-L1001>`_). As eggs are deprecated and pip-based installs fall back to the platform-specific location for installing data files, there is no supported facility to reliably retrieve these resources. |