nice post zooko, thanks. On Jan 25, 4:54 pm, zooko <zo...@zooko.com> wrote:
On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Well if that's a recurrent need maybe we can add this feature.
What about a new option called "include_empty_folders" (False by default)
In a related story, I recently found a problem with the packaging of nevow. We had earlier added "twisted.plugins" to "packages", not because nevow includes a package named "twisted.plugins", but because that's the only way we could figure out how to make sure that distutils and/or setuptools would create the empty "twisted/plugins" directory on installation which nevow requires:
http://divmod.org/trac/changeset/16896
However, this leads to this warning message at import time:
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zope/__init__.py:19: UserWarning: Module twisted was already imported from /usr/lib/python2.5/site- packages/twisted/__init__.pyc, but /home/buildslave/slave-gutsy-tahoe/ gutsy/build/support/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Nevow-0.9.32- py2.5.egg is being added to sys.path"
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue36
So I've just submitted a patch to nevow to use data_files instead of packages to indicate that this directory should be created, and to do that we have to include a file in the directory so that distutils doesn't prune it out for being an empty directory:
http://divmod.org/trac/ticket/2830
One thing that I don't understand about all this is why setuptools's "include_package_data=True" didn't cause the directory to be installed. I'm not sure if calling that "twisted/plugins" directory a "data file" or an "included package data" makes more sense, but the former currently works.
Regards,
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