On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:26:26PM +0000, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Marius Gedminas, on 2008-09-02: > > 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.
.egg is a binary distribution; what you probably want is a .zip source distribution. Marius Gedminas -- We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
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