taichi example missing

[gwoweiming]

[Taichi] version 0.7.26, llvm 10.0.0, commit e37bdb5, win, python 3.9.6

taichi examples only have {minimal}

[k-ye]

Oops, this is because of #2475. For now you can directly execute these examples w/ python3 $EXAMPLE_NAME. @victoriacity could you help take a look around

taichi/python/taichi/main.py

Lines 152 to 153 in fbc1f43

	@register
	def example(self, arguments: list = sys.argv[2:]):

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[victoriacity]

It looks like the example subfolders are missing in the PyPI distribution, while in the GitHub release the examples are present.

I guess it would be related to the ti dist scripts and I'm looking into this.

For the specific case of 0.7.26, the examples are manually included as packages in the python/setup.py script. Setuptools does not seem to recursively look for subfolders so all example subfolders have been missed in the PyPI distribution. The fix to 0.7.26 is presented here.

After #2540 the MANIFEST.in file instead need to be changed to recursively include examples/ folder, see #2591.

I guess the lesson learned is to be careful with directory structure changes and double check related paths in CI and distribution workflows.