On 4/20/11 18:04 , P.J. Eby wrote:
At 10:56 AM 4/20/2011 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
On 12/16/10 00:52 , P.J. Eby wrote:
At 04:18 PM 12/15/2010 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
On 12/15/10 16:15 , P.J. Eby wrote:
Most likely, the problem is with the file finder being used. Are you
using a git plugin for setuptools, or simply listing everything in
MANIFEST.in? If the former, it may be that the git plugin you're using
simply doesn't support symlinks. If you're not using a git plugin,
perhaps there is something amiss in the MANIFEST.in, and setuptools'
built-in support for subversion is hiding the problem by picking up
the
symlinks.
I am not using a git (or other) plugin. I tried listing things in
MANIFEST.in, for example using:
graft my/package/templates/
graft my/package/templates/libraries
unfortunately that had no effect: libraries was not included, not as
symlink nor as a copy of the symlink target.
I don't know whether MANIFEST.in is supposed to support symlinks or not,
but the fact that it's working with subversion is strongly indicative
that setuptools' file finder is picking up stuff that MANIFEST.in is
not.
I don't know *why* MANIFEST.in wouldn't pick up symlinks, though.
Perhaps you could try boiling this down to a simpler test case (e.g.,
subversion and git versions of the same minimal package containing only
a symlink referred to by MANIFEST.in) so we can narrow it down some
more?
I've finally gotten around to doing this. I have attached test.tar.gz
with a minimal package that demonstrates this.
Ah. It appears MANIFEST.in simply doesn't support symlinks. (Distutils
has explicit code to filter them out, in fact.) This is a distutils
issue, which setuptools can't do anything about.
Is there another way to get this working? I'ld hate to have to resort to
monkeypatching distutils.
Wichert.
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