[Distutils] Re: --help not working in 0.8.1 (w/patch)

[Lyle Johnson]

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> BTW, has anyone other than me successfully used the "sdist" command,
> specifically written and processed a MANIFEST.in file, under Windows
> yet?

Looks like there's a bug in the native_path() function and that's why the
forward-slashes in commands like this:

	include/autotest.py

don't get translated into Windows-style paths like this:

	include\autotest.py

I think once you look at the current implementation of native_path() you'll
see the problem; but I've attached a patch which I think does what you
originally intended there.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/distutils/distutils/util.py,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -a -u -r1.29 util.py
--- util.py	2000/04/22 15:14:58	1.29
+++ util.py	2000/04/24 15:01:35
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@
         raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname
     if pathname[-1] =3D=3D '/':
         raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot end with '/'" % pathname
-    if os.sep !=3D '/' and os.sep in pathname:
-        raise ValueError, \
-              "path '%s' cannot contain '%c' character" % \
-              (pathname, os.sep)
-
-        paths =3D string.split (pathname, '/')
-        return apply (os.path.join, paths)
+    if os.sep !=3D '/':
+	if os.sep in pathname:
+            raise ValueError, \
+              "path '%s' cannot contain '%c' character" % (pathname, =
os.sep)
+	else:
+            paths =3D string.split (pathname, '/')
+            return apply (os.path.join, paths)
     else:
         return pathname


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