I had more of a dig into this, with a minimal setup.py:
https://gist.github.com/stuaxo/c76a042cb7aa6e77285b setup calls install_data On win32 setup.py calls install_data which copies the file into the egg - even though I have given the absolute path to sitepackages C:\> python setup.py install .... running install_data creating build\bdist.win32\egg copying TEST_FILE.TXT -> build\bdist.win32\egg\ .... On Linux the file is copied to the right path: $ python setup.py install ..... installing package data to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg running install_data copying TEST_FILE.TXT -> /mnt/data/home/stu/.virtualenvs/tmpv/lib/python2.7/site-packages .... *something* is normalising my absolute path to site packages into just '' - it's possible to see by looking at self.data_files in the 'run' function in: distutils/command/install_data.py - on windows it the first part has been changed to '' unlike on linux where it's the absolute path I set... still not sure where it's happening though. *This all took a while, as rebuilt VM and verified on 2.7.8 and 2.7.9.. S++ > On Monday, March 9, 2015 12:17 AM, Stuart Axon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a further look - and on windows the file ends up inside the .egg > > file, on > linux it ends up inside the site packages as intended. > > > At a guess it seems like there might be a bug in the path handling on > windows. > .. I wonder if it's something like this > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4579908/cross-platform-splitting-of-path-in-python > > which seems an easy way to get an off-by-one error in a path ? > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
