[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Larry Hastings added the comment: And this will hold up Python 3.4a1, as I can't close #13463 until this is closed first. So I'm closing this as wontfix. -- nosy: +larry resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: packaging is not in the stdlib anymore, and the successors to distutils2 may or may not use package_data in setup.cfg. This is obsolete. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I explained in another issue that I had been using priority release > blocker + version third-party to keep track of distutils2 release > blockers. This can be distracting for CPython devs and RMs so I’ll > just use high now. Woops, sorry. -- _

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: I explained in another issue that I had been using priority release blocker + version third-party to keep track of distutils2 release blockers. This can be distracting for CPython devs and RMs so I’ll just use high now. -- priority: normal -> high

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Cannot block a release anymore, since packaging has gone. -- nosy: +pitrou priority: release blocker -> normal ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: ht

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Georg Brandl added the comment: Does this block 3.3b1? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Alexis Metaireau added the comment: Agreed on this one. That would avoid to have a new syntax for this case, which seems to be very common. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: Or on the contrary, we could remove the special, not-supported-by-other-parts-of-the-stdlib ** syntax and just expand somedir to match all files in subdir and descendents, in package_data and resources. I’ll make a patch for this idea to see how it looks.

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: For consistency with the resources section, a recursive glob should be mydata/**, not mydata/* or bare mydata. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: One implementation by George Sakkis is found in this thread: http://bugs.python.org/issue2279#msg82213 There are subtle issues with this feature. For example, a glob pattern could match both package data files and Python submodules, leading to the same .py fil

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: As a first step for this, I moved around some things in the test file to ease coming additions. Can someone test this patch for the distutils2 repo on Windows? -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23829/test_sdist.diff ___

[issue5302] Allow package_data specs/globs to match directories

Éric Araujo added the comment: I need to fix this for distutils2’s next release (with #13463 and #5302), to include distutils2/tests/fake_dists. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo priority: high -> release blocker title: Allow package_data globs match directories -> Allow package_data