"examples" package erroneously installed

Because there’s an examples/__init__.py file in the repo, this line of setup.py is erroneously deciding to install two packages, flask-admin and examples. I suspect other packages make this same mistake, which can lead to some file conflicts during installation.

It would be best to either change your find_packages invocation to blacklist exclude:

find_packages(exclude=['examples', 'examples.*'])

Or (and this is how I would do it to avoid this problem in the future) or to whitelist flask_admin:

find_packages(include=['flask_admin'])

I would also go further and also blacklist flask_admin.tests, since I think tests should not be part of the installation:

find_packages(include=['flask_admin'], exclude=['flask_admin.tests.*'])

But I think just not shipping the examples package is a good start.

[mrjoes]

Sounds good. The include option won’t work as all “batteries” are shipped as flask_admin.contrib sub-packages.

But sure, examples and tests can be safely removed.

[elvijs]

Good point.

For what it’s worth, I think that explicitly whitelisting flask-admin is the cleanest solution (as long as tests are moved out of flask-admin).