Exclude doc/ from sdist

[maresb]

It seems that the doc/ directory isn't doing anything but taking up space in the sdist. (Deleting reduces the .tar.gz sdist from 3.85MB to 1.34MB.)

Note: doc/.build/PLACEHOLDER is still included. It's 14 years old now, so perhaps it is unnecessary and can be deleted?

Closes #1397

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[maresb]

In the spirit of changing no more than one thing at a time, I don't see any rush on merging this. We may want to wait until after the Hatch stuff is already released and shown to be stable.

[maresb]

Strange, this is failing with

OSError: License file does not exist: LICENSE.txt

This doesn't make any sense to me yet, and it builds for me locally. I wonder if this could be related in some way to #1409?

I'm out of time right now, so I'll have to come back to this if someone else doesn't get it first.

[dgerlanc]

Strange, this is failing with

OSError: License file does not exist: LICENSE.txt

This doesn't make any sense to me yet, and it builds for me locally. I wonder if this could be related in some way to #1409?

I'm out of time right now, so I'll have to come back to this if someone else doesn't get it first.

LICENSE.txt seems to be a symbolic link to docs/LICENSE.txt, which I'm guessing is the issue.

[maresb]

Thanks @dgerlanc for solving the mystery!

I think it's fairly standard these days to just have LICENSE.txt in the project root, and I suspect that doc/LICENSE.txt may be some legacy artifact. Let's see if deleting it breaks anything.

[brandonwillard]

Thanks as always, @maresb!

[maresb]

Thanks for the merge! Results are looking good:

[brandonwillard]

Thanks for the merge! Results are looking good:

Wow, much better!