Marius Gedminas, on 2008-09-02: > > 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.
Ah, right, you can give options to sdist. This indeed works fine: python2.4 setup.py sdist --formats=zip Or this can be put in setup.cfg: [sdist] # guard against tarfile bug by using the zip format formats = zip and then a plain sdist works fine again: python2.4 setup.py sdist Thanks! -- 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
