Martin von Loewis writes:

Michael Hudson writes:

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It's about this hard, in fact:

Should you remove the old _failed file before renaming the newly-failed one?

Well, you /could/ do but setup.py is probably only run on sufficiently posixly platforms that it doesn't matter? I'll be safe any way.

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One little point (or I'd have checked it in already): should we make efforts to not install the _failed.so turds?

People apparently want the file, so just install it.

OK. That's also the easier option, another advantage :) Cheers, M. -- The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp