Hi all --

I've finally caught up with the last couple weeks' traffic on the sig, and fixed many of the bugs reported. There's a new code snapshot available:

http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/distutils-20000117.tar.gz

Please give it a whirl, especially if you're using Windows.

This mostly includes Windows portability fixes. It does *not* include Finn Bock's fixes for JPython; I haven't had time to look closely at those. They might have to wait for version 0.2.

There *might* be a 0.1.3 release before IPC8, but I really should work on my slides for the conference first... so please give this snapshot a try. Just download it and run the setup script as usual -- the main difference between the snapshot and a real release is no doc updates (hence README, USAGE, and CHANGES are not included in the snapshot).

1. Syntax errors in (unused?) commands/build_lib.py (look, you will see them) 2. _spawn_nt() still raises an OSError when the command is not found, see the traceback I sent you yesterday. Fix follows: if not dry_run: # spawn for NT requires a full path to the .exe try: rc = os.spawnv (os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd) except OSError, detail: raise DistutilsExecError(detail) if rc != 0: raise DistutilsExecError("command failed: %d" % rc) 3. There is still the indentation error in dist.py: make_zipfile (line 475) Otherwise it works fine. Thanks! Thomas