Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: There is a simple way to fix this: change one line in sdist to catch ValueErrors in addition to DistutilsTemplateError. Users will get a on-line warning message with the ill-formed manifest line number instead of a wall of traceback.
This is clearly a bug fix IMO: it is documented that distutils code can raise standard exceptions in addition to Distutils* errors, so here it’s not a new feature but a fix for sdist. (Another way to fix this, would be to catch ValueError raised by convert_path in filelist and wrap it in a DistutilsTemplateError, but I’m not sure it really buys us anything. Maybe it would be the better fix for Packaging, where the Manifest class is intended for public use.) ---------- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo components: +Distutils2 nosy: +alexis versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8286> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
