On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:04:27 +1000, richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Machin wrote: >> FYI, there are a few unreconstructed diehards out here who neither run >> on a *x platform nor run bleeding-edge Python straight out of last >> night's CVS. > >I think you need to pull your head in, mate. > >The bug you discovered in PyPI is plain and simple a bug in its attempts to >discover whether an uploaded ZIP file was generated by distutils. > >It's a bug. It will get fixed. > >Get over your damn platform paranoia. > > That remark was in response to Tony's seemingly *x-centric suggestion to use "setup.py --format=gztar" which would have presented some difficulties to a Windows-only person. Perhaps I should have festooned it with smileys. In any case it was nothing to do with the bug and nothing to do with you. I think you need to suck *your* scone in, cobber :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list