[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 9cdc845d5f2e by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Warn instead of crashing because of invalid path in MANIFEST.in (#8286). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9cdc845d5f2e -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Éric Araujo added the comment: This should now be fixed. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6cd8c1582dff by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Warn instead of crashing because of invalid path in MANIFEST.in (#8286). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6cd8c1582dff New changeset b42661daa5cc by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Merge fix for #8286 f

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Éric Araujo added the comment: Can you test with this patch? -- keywords: +patch versions: -Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22939/sdist-no-traceback-3.2.diff ___ Python tracker __

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Éric Araujo added the comment: a one-line* I’ll have a patch up for review shortly. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Éric Araujo 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

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: Repro steps on a Windows machine: 1. pip install --no-install django-navbar==0.2 Yes, it seems like a bug in the MANIFEST file of the django-navbar project (which is not mine) that seems to have been fixed in the subsequent 0.3 release. > at best it need

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/'

Éric Araujo added the comment: Could you describe the steps leading to this message, preferably in the form of a unit test? It looks like a bug in your MANIFEST.in to me, but we need a test to be sure. At worst it’s a bug in distutils, at best it needs a better error message. -- nosy

[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/'

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[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/'

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar : I noticed this exception in http://pypm-free.activestate.com/2.6/win32-x86/pool/d/dj/django-navbar-0.2.0_win32-x86_2.6_1.pypm.d/log [...] reading manifest file 'django_navbar.egg-info\SOURCES.txt' reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in' Traceback (mo