Package data cannot be accessed from subdirectories

[frissyn]

So annoying.

Hours and hours and hours of searching, googling, reading and re-reading documentation, scrolling StackOverflow answers complaining/warning that the documentation is misleading or a straight up lie, tracing GitHub and GitLab issues back three
whole years, and lots of ctrl-z, ctrl-z, ctrl-z, ctrl-z...

My journey through this issue, deteriorating more and more into psychosis the further down:

• Data Files Documentation
• Including non-Python files with setup.py
• Access data in package subdirectory
• Allow resources to be in subdirectories
• Easily Load non-Python Data Files from a Python Package with importlib.resources
• How to include package data with setuptools/distutils?
• package_data is a lie????
• losing my sanity
• resources still cant be accessed in a subdirectory and i want to die
• i have found hope!!!

Testing more solutions now, I think I'm onto something, until then Reflux is unusable outside of a local build.

look! fellow programmers suffering as well!

[frissyn]

OK, looks I've (finally) found a working solution based on how pallets implements their data files in werkzueg, jinja, etc.

Hopefully it doesn't get messed when publishing to PyPI. Please.