nice post zooko, thanks.
On Jan 25, 4:54 pm, zooko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > > Well if that's a recurrent need maybe we can add this feature. > > > What about a new option called "include_empty_folders" (False by > > default) > > In a related story, I recently found a problem with the packaging of > nevow. We had earlier added "twisted.plugins" to "packages", not > because nevow includes a package named "twisted.plugins", but because > that's the only way we could figure out how to make sure that > distutils and/or setuptools would create the empty "twisted/plugins" > directory on installation which nevow requires: > > http://divmod.org/trac/changeset/16896 > > However, this leads to this warning message at import time: > > "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zope/__init__.py:19: UserWarning: > Module twisted was already imported from /usr/lib/python2.5/site- > packages/twisted/__init__.pyc, but /home/buildslave/slave-gutsy-tahoe/ > gutsy/build/support/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Nevow-0.9.32- > py2.5.egg is being added to sys.path" > > http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue36 > > So I've just submitted a patch to nevow to use data_files instead of > packages to indicate that this directory should be created, and to do > that we have to include a file in the directory so that distutils > doesn't prune it out for being an empty directory: > > http://divmod.org/trac/ticket/2830 > > One thing that I don't understand about all this is why setuptools's > "include_package_data=True" didn't cause the directory to be > installed. I'm not sure if calling that "twisted/plugins" directory > a "data file" or an "included package data" makes more sense, but the > former currently works. > > Regards, > > Zooko > --- > Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem --http://allmydata.org > store your data: $10/month --http://allmydata.com/?tracking=zsig > _______________________________________________ > 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
