FYI, this is a know bug/limitation I never bother to look much into it as we simply add a placeholder file.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Domen Kožar <[email protected]> wrote: > Usage is to dispatch Paste templates > http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html#templates. > > And the dir must be empty, for some reasons. > > So this distutils syntax does not work (interesting though, as it does > create the dir in the egg, it's just not copied) > > On Jan 25, 12:18 am, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't know on setuptools side, but in distutils, I don't think >> there's any way to include an empty directory >> like this, even with a graft in the MANIFEST.in file. >> >> The commands are looking for files to include, then create the >> necessary directories in the distribution, to include those files >> >> Can't you add a README.txt file in that directory ? >> >> What is the use case to include an empty directory in a release ? >> >> Regards >> Tarek >> >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Domen Kožar <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm having issues to include an empty directory to setuptools package. >> >> > package_data={'data':['templates/*tmpl']} >> >> > this includes all the files, but there is data/templates/Test >> > directory that is empty and there is no way of globing it. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> >> -- >> Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy |www.afpy.org >> Blog FR |http://programmation-python.org >> Blog EN |http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
