How to include package data and resources?

[scotran]

I'm new to PDM and am trying to add non code files to my builds. I've looked at a few answers addressing how to include non code files and data into the build, but I'm unsuccessful in recreating it. According to this doc, we should be able to do this via includes and include (for wheels). Both are not working for me.

My director looks like the default project directory.

pyproject.toml
src/
    foo/
         __init__.py
         main.py
         bar/
              styles.css

In my pyproject.toml, I have

[tool.pdm.build]
includes = ["src/foo/bar"]

The built tar.gz still does not include the bar directory and styles.css file. Am I missing something?

[frostming]

Using the same file structure and without any extra config(no tool.pdm.build table) it got included:

-rw-r--r--  0 0      0           6  8 14 08:46 foo-0.1.0/README.md
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0         409  8 14 08:47 foo-0.1.0/pyproject.toml
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0           0  8 14 08:46 foo-0.1.0/src/foo/__init__.py
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0          35  8 14 08:46 foo-0.1.0/src/foo/bar/style.css
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0         459  8  8 13:09 foo-0.1.0/src/foo/main.py
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0         292  1  1  1970 foo-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

[scotran]

That's not what happens for me. This is all I get after running pdm build and extracting the tar.gz from dist:

├── PKG-INFO
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── setup.cfg
└── src
    ├── foo
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   └── main.py
    └── foo.egg-info
        ├── dependency_links.txt
        ├── PKG-INFO
        ├── SOURCES.txt
        └── top_level.txt

This is using the default pyproject.toml. I just started a new project to test using pdm init.

This is the whole directory.

├── build
│   ├── bdist.linux-x86_64
│   └── lib
│       └── foo
│           ├── __init__.py
│           └── main.py
├── dist
│   ├── foo-0.1.0
│   │   ├── PKG-INFO
│   │   ├── pyproject.toml
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── setup.cfg
│   │   └── src
│   │       ├── foo
│   │       │   ├── __init__.py
│   │       │   └── main.py
│   │       └── foo.egg-info
│   │           ├── dependency_links.txt
│   │           ├── PKG-INFO
│   │           ├── SOURCES.txt
│   │           └── top_level.txt
│   ├── foo-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
│   └── foo-0.1.0.tar.gz
├── __pycache__
│   └── __init__.cpython-311.pyc
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── src
│   ├── foo
│   │   ├── bar
│   │   │   └── styles.css
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   └── main.py
│   └── foo.egg-info
│       ├── dependency_links.txt
│       ├── PKG-INFO
│       ├── SOURCES.txt
│       └── top_level.txt
└── tests
    ├── __init__.py
    └── __pycache__
        └── __init__.cpython-311.pyc

[scotran]

I think I know why now. If you choose to do a PDM "project," it will not appear. But if you do a PDM "library" it does work out of the box. Is there a way to change a PDM project into a library?