#16671: 5th tutorial on turning Polls into a reusable app
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Reporter: stumbles | Owner: ben@…
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by carljm):
Looks like even distutils itself is built to assume that setup.py is in
the current working directory. Interesting, I didn't realize that. I think
I'd never tried to actually run sdist or install from a different
directory, only simple metadata-getting commands (`python setup.py
egg_info` or e.g. `python setup.py --long-description`).
That definitely reduces the importance of point 4, but I still think it's
worth doing this the robust way, because at least then a few more (simple)
uses of setup.py will work from a different directory. I've definitely
seen real bugs filed against real packages because the handling of
`README.txt` wasn't robust against execution from a different directory.
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