add custom package_data to action

[rackodo]

I'm trying to publish my bashbox package and can't figure out how to add some extra project data files that are needed to make one of the features work. How do I go about doing this?

[webknjaz]

Hello, this seems to be a question related to building a package. But our project specifically doesn't care about how you build it — it just publishes dists that are already built. I've already answered a similar question in a bit more details @ #86 (comment).

It seems that you're using setuptools as a build back-end. So the best place to start would be https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/quickstart.html and the best place to ask questions about it is https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/discussions/categories/q-a.

The tutorial article at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/publishing-package-distribution-releases-using-github-actions-ci-cd-workflows/ that I wrote, only demonstrates a basic scenario of publishing packages built with the build PEP 517 front-end but learning how to configure the back-end is on the end-users because it's project-specific (setuptools is not the only build back-end in the wild, there's many to choose from).