Specifying Additional Files With A Manifest

By default, Distutils will include the following files in your release package:

• README.txt
• setup.py
• The .py files needed by the multi-file modules listed in the packages parameter
• The individual .py files listed in the py_modules parameter

That will cover all the files in the httplib2 project. But for the chardet project, we also want to include the COPYING.txt license file and ...