On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:06:16PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008, Christian Zagrodnick wrote: > > > Probably you know already. That's a (linux) bug in the python > > > tar library. I did nothing wrong. It's just broken if you extract > > > the files from the egg. on linux. Everything is build correct. > > > > Could you clearify why the package I built works then? That's the great > > mystery I suppose ;) > > Because UNIX built packages work on UNIX and Windows. But Windows built > packages only work on Windows.
This email contains the explanation -- it's a bug in distutils/setuptools: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-September/008296.html Note that the latest setuptools release (setuptools 0.6c7) does NOT contain the fix. Marius Gedminas -- For vi emulation of emacs, just type ":sh emacs" (without the quotes).
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