At 10:44 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I have a package with a source that looks like this:
setup.py MANIFEST.in Prototype/libraries/jquery.js Prototype/style/main.css my/ my/package/ my/package/templates/libraries -> ../../../Prototype/libraries my/package/templates/style -> ../../../Prototype/style
what I would like to accomplish is that when a bdist is made either Prototype/ is installed somewhere and the symlinks point to it, or the symlinks are replaced with a copy of the data they point to.
For a package maintained in subverion this works: when the sdist is created the symlink is replaced with a copy of the thing it points to, which is then included in the bdist. For a package maintained in git this does not work: the symlink always appears to be ignored. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Most likely, the problem is with the file finder being used. Are you using a git plugin for setuptools, or simply listing everything in MANIFEST.in? If the former, it may be that the git plugin you're using simply doesn't support symlinks. If you're not using a git plugin, perhaps there is something amiss in the MANIFEST.in, and setuptools' built-in support for subversion is hiding the problem by picking up the symlinks.
Wichert.
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