setup.py: use setuptools.find_namespace_packages() (#1483)

* setup.py: use setuptools.find_packages()

* switch to better method; add documentation

* more comment

* use stable pypi release action

should hopefully address and silence this warning:
Warning: You are using "pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master". The "master" branch of this project has been sunset and will not receive any updates, not even security bug fixes. Please, make sure to use a supported version. If you want to pin to v1 major version, use "pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1". If you feel adventurous, you may opt to use use "pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@unstable/v1" instead. A more general recommendation is to pin to exact tags or commit shas.

* some pruning

* fix errors

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
     # only publish distribution to PyPI for tagged commits
     - name: Publish distribution to PyPI
       if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
       with:
         user: __token__
         password: ${{ secrets.pypi_password }}

MANIFEST.in

@@ -17,3 +17,15 @@ global-exclude .DS_Store
 global-exclude .git*
 global-exclude \#*
 global-exclude .ipynb_checkpoints
+
+exclude .coveragerc
+exclude .lgtm.yml
+exclude .stickler.yml
+exclude codecov.yml
+exclude readthedocs.yml
+exclude CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+
+prune paper
+prune .github
+prune benchmarks
+prune ci

setup.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import sys
 
 try:
-    from setuptools import setup
+    from setuptools import setup, find_namespace_packages
     from setuptools.extension import Extension
 except ImportError:
     raise RuntimeError('setuptools is required')
@@ -82,7 +82,17 @@
 }
 
 # set up pvlib packages to be installed and extensions to be compiled
-PACKAGES = ['pvlib']
+
+# the list of packages is not just the top-level "pvlib", but also
+# all sub-packages like "pvlib.bifacial".  Here, setuptools's definition of
+# "package" is, in effect, any directory you want to include in the
+# distribution.  So even "pvlib.data" counts as a package, despite
+# not having any python code or even an __init__.py.
+# setuptools.find_namespace_packages() will find all these directories,
+# although to exclude "docs", "ci", etc., we include only names matching
+# the "pvlib*" glob.  Although note that "docs" does get added separately
+# via the MANIFEST.in spec.
+PACKAGES = find_namespace_packages(include=['pvlib*'])
 
 extensions = []