While working on a package I decided to do some old-school revision
control and make a copy of the directory. I recursively copied the
package to PACKAGENAME.bak1. I then ran setup.py develop (indirectly
though zc.buildout) and received an intriguing error message. Here are
reproduction steps that don't use buildout.
% mkdir foo
% cd foo
% mkdir bad.dir
% touch bad.dir/__init__.py
create setup.py as such:
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(
name = 'test',
packages = find_packages('.'),
install_requires = ['setuptools']
)
% python setup.py develop
running develop
running egg_info
writing requirements to test.egg-info/requires.txt
writing test.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to test.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to test.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
error: package directory 'bad/dir' does not exist
It looks like somewhere in setuptools paths are being normalized to
package names and back. The dot doesn't survive the round trip.
--
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
_______________________________________________
Distutils-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
