Add new CI job which build the release artifact (tarball, wheel) and

verifies it works (unpacks the tarball, runs tests).

Also remove MANIFEST.in in favor or include rules declared in
pyproject.toml.

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -201,6 +201,60 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           tox -e black-check,isort-check,pyupgrade,checks,import-timings,lint,pylint,mypy
 
+  build_test_release_artifact:
+    name: Build and Test Release Artifact
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python_version: [3.8]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@master
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Use Python ${{ matrix.python_version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python_version }}
+
+      - name: Cache Python Dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/pip
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ hashFiles('requirements-lint.txt') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-pip-
+
+      - name: Install Python Dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install -r requirements-ci.txt
+          pip install -e ".[build]"
+
+      - name: Build Release Artifact
+        run: |
+          python -m build -vv
+
+      - name: Verify Release Artifact
+        run: |
+          export PYTHONPATH=.
+          export VERSION=$(python -c "import libcloud ; print(libcloud.__version__)")
+          unset PYTHONPATH
+
+          # Verify tarball + wheel file exists
+          export TARBALL_FILENAME="apache_libcloud-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+          ls -la "dist/${TARBALL_FILENAME}"
+          ls -la "dist/apache_libcloud-${VERSION}-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
+
+          # Unpack tarball and run the tests
+          cd dist/
+          tar -xzvf "${TARBALL_FILENAME}"
+
+          cd "apache_libcloud-${VERSION}/" 
+          tox -epy3.8
+
   build_test_docker_image:
     name: Build and Verify Docker Image
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

pyproject.toml

@@ -85,11 +85,37 @@ test = [
 ]
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
-where = ["./"]
-include = ["libcloud", "libcloud.test*" ]
+include = ["libcloud"]
+namespaces = false
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
-"*" = ["*.json", "*.xml", "*.pub", "*.key", "*.pem", "*.crt", "*.csv", "*.txt", "*.html"]
+"*" = [
+    "LICENSE",
+    "NOTICE",
+    "example*.py",
+    "CHANGES.rst",
+    "README.rst",
+    "tox.ini",
+    "pyproject.toml",
+    "requirements-tests.txt",
+    "requirements-lint.txt",
+    "libcloud/test/secrets.py-dist",
+    "demos/*"
+]
+"libcloud.data" = [
+    "pricing.json"
+]
+"libcloud.test" = [
+    "*.json",
+    "*.xml",
+    "*.pub",
+    "*.key",
+    "*.pem",
+    "*.crt",
+    "*.csv",
+    "*.txt",
+    "*.html"
+]
 "libcloud.test.compute.fixtures.misc" = ["*"]
 "libcloud.test.dns.fixtures.worldwidedns" = ["*"]