2008/9/2 Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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... >
If this egg is exclusively for a buildout environment, you could also add a patch to your buildout before eggs get collected see: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/python-24-tarfile-module-is-buggy-patch-it/ > > > 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 > -- Tarek Ziadé - Directeur Technique INGENIWEB (TM) - SAS 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 Bureaux de la Colline - 1 rue Royale - Bâtiment D - 9ème étage 92210 Saint Cloud - France Phone : 01.78.15.24.00 / Fax : 01 46 02 44 04 http://www.ingeniweb.com - une société du groupe Alter Way
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