Two different errors:

*** SOURCE ERROR: The MANIFEST file is missing!

and:

running build_py
error: build_py: supplying both 'packages' and
'py_modules' options is not allowed

Trying to --skip-build the installation to avoid this
problem didn't work either::

running install_lib
warning: install_lib: 'build/lib' does not exist -- no
Python modules to install
running install_scripts
error: cannot copy tree 'build/scripts-2.2': not a
directory


-- radix