Folks, Stop talking about this. :)
This is almost certainly a buildout bug that I'll fix. Jim On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: > On 4/22/09 4:13 PM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> Previously Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> Wichert Akkerman wrote: >>> >>>> 2. forbid the use of __file__ in setup.py. This breaks on systems >>>> which do not have setuptools installed globally but rely on a >>>> (zc.buildout-created) wrapper script. __file__ will point >>>> to the wrapper script in those instances, which breaks setup.py. >>> This will break many setup.py scripts that use __file__ to integrate >>> README.txt and such for publication on pypi. I think that's a useful >>> feature we cannot just drop, so hopefully there's another solution. >> >> Can we assume that the cwd is the root of the package? Do you ever >> invoke setup.py from somewhere else? All Plone packages make that >> assumption and we've never seen any problems with it. > > You actually can't anyway (at least currently, for any useful > setup.py command): > > http://plope.com/Members/chrism/setup.py-blues > > - C > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
