[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.12 broken on Windows

[Tarek Ziadé]

Jason, would you mind looking at your fix for the sandbox failure you
have added in r670 to fix #118?

It seems that this code will break if the pywin32 package is not
installed as expected.

Srid, is the pywon32 installed as a zipped egg in your environment ?
if so, could you unzip
it to see if the bug goes away ?

In any case, if pywin32 uses this directory to write files in it, I
don't see how this can work with zipped eggs.

A quick fix is to check if we are able to read the path, and if not
just drop adding this in the sandbox.


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
> <sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
>> May I call your attention to this bug?
>>
>>  http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/151/
>>
>> 0.6.12 broke Windows installation. Are we not planning a new release?
>
> I was travelling, so I couldn't look at this yet. I'll be able to look
> at it today,
> we need to understand why this folder can be present and empty under some
> circumstances, and what it means.
>
> Notice that the whole point of Distribute is to allow packaging people
> to fix bugs and not
> depend on one person. IIRC you have a commit access so you can fix bugs too ;)
>
> And I'd be glad to give you a pypi access and to show you how to do releases
>
> Regards
> Tarek
>
>
>
>>
>> -srid
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> Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
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