On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:23:30AM +0000, Maurits van Rees wrote: > I'm sure I have read this somewhere, but my search skills are failing > me. When easy installing a package this goes wrong: > > $ bin/easy_install ../foo.bar/dist/foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz > Processing foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz > error: Couldn't find a setup script in ../foo.bar/dist/foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz > > The cause is that there is a directory foo.bar-1.0.3/.../baz for which > the length of this path is exactly 100 characters. When I release a > version 1.1 instead, this path is reduced to 98 characters and > easy_install happily installs it. > > Does anyone know which version of setuptools or easy_install > introduced this problem or fixes it? Or a link where this is > explained?
Which Python version is this? I seem to remember some bug in stdlib's tarfile module that couldn't handle paths longer than 100 characters. Google + bugs.python.org tell me there were several bugs http://bugs.python.org/issue1583506 http://bugs.python.org/issue1509889 http://bugs.python.org/issue1609958 http://bugs.python.org/issue1719898 Marius Gedminas -- Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. -- Oscar Wilde
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