In my experience, that's usually a problem that happens when you do "python setup.py sdist" using:
- a setup.py expects that "find_package_data()" will find package data based on searching for things checked into version control. - a source tree that isn't checked out from version control and does not have a MANIFEST.in file. - C On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > Packages with Zope software typically contain lots of package data > (templates, resources, translations, configuration files). Last > night we > had somebody with a Windows machine make distributions of some of our > eggs (using python setup.py sdist) for the first time. It turns out, > 'sdist' on Windows creates a ZIP file while on other platforms it > creates a gzipped tarball. I find that difference in behaviour a bit > disturbing. > > That behaviour isn't the actual root of the problem we experienced, > however. These ZIP distributions were then uploaded to PyPI and other > people happily started installing them. The only problem was that on > Linux and MacOSX, the installed eggs no longer contained any of the > package data. The distributions (the ZIP files) do contain it, but > somehow setuptools fails to install it properly. > > Is this a known bug? > > Is there a reason for the different default behaviour of 'sdist' on > the > different platforms? > > > -- > http://worldcookery.com -- Professional Zope documentation and > training > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
