Previously Benji York wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > I want to suggest two changes to the standard release process: > > > > 1. use "sdist --formats=zip". This works around a nasty bug in the > > python 2.4 tarfile module which makes it skip files with a > > path of a specific length. This can make a release impossible to use. > > The bug you refer to is indeed nasty, but (IIRC) was fixed in later > releases of 2.4. I'd rather not add yet another thing people have to > remember to do to make a release for the benefit of such a small > minority of end-users.
It was introduced in the last release of 2.4. As far as I know there are no plans to make a new 2.4 point release. > > 2. forbid the use of __file__ in setup.py. This breaks on systems > > which do not have setuptools installed globally but rely on a > > (zc.buildout-created) wrapper script. __file__ will point > > to the wrapper script in those instances, which breaks setup.py. > > Is there something zc.buildout or setuptools can do differently that > will mitigate this? I don't know I'm afraid. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
