Aug. 28, 2014
7:24 p.m.
On Aug 27, 2014 8:50 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
tl; dr; If you know of a project that can't be successfully installed with "pip wheel proj; pip install /path/to/the/wheel.whl" can you let me know the details?
Both Ansible and Fabric want to put stuff in <virtualenv>/usr/share, which doesn't work from a .whl file but does from the sdist. AFAICT, you need to spell out the data files redundantly in MANIFEST.in *and* setup(data_files=...), or the wheel won't contain the files. I've been meaning to write up a test case to demonstrate the problem for a good while, but haven't got around to it yet. HTH, Joost Molenaar