Marius Gedminas, on 2008-09-02: > > 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.
Ah right, tarfile is the culprit. I am using python2.4. And one of the bug reports you pasted mentioned that python2.4 is not maintained anymore. So I guess the possible workarounds are: - Make a .egg instead of a .tar.gz for my package. - Restrict myself to using x.y or a.b.c.d as the version of this package. - Give the directory a shorter name... Thanks for clearing this up. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "This is your day, don't let them take it away." [Barlow Girl] _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
