[Distutils] setup.py not included in source distribution

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> I came across a strange bug on Win2k, that setup.py
> is not included in the distribution by default.
> 
> This only occurrs, when the distribution is built by this command line
> 
>   setup.py sdist
> 
> and not with
> 
>   python setup.py sdist
> 
> The problem is that in the first case the MANIFEST file contains this line:
>   C:\sf\distutils\setup.py
> and this line in the second case:
>   setup.py
> 
> The cause is that in the first case sys.argv[0] is set to
> the absolute path 'c:\\sf\\distutils\\setup.py', in the second
> case it is 'setup.py'.
> Finally, the sdist command copies it's file list in this way:
> 
>                 dest = os.path.join(base_dir, file)
>                 self.copy_file(file, dest, link=link)
> 
> and os.path.join(xxx, yyy) returns yyy when yyy is an absolute path.
> 
> The workaround is simple:
> - either use the second form to start the setup script,
> - or insert 'setup.py' manually in the MANIFEST.in file.
> 
> Sounds like a bug to me, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
> Should absolute path names in MANIFEST be allowed or not?

I think that would not be very useful... files in MANIFEST
should always be relative to the source distribution directory
which is usually the location of the setup.py file.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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