[Distutils] package_data issue (chopping off characters)

Bastian Kleineidam calvin at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Apr 14 14:21:34 CEST 2005


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Hi Jeremy,

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:58:49AM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> http://download.gna.org/veusz/testing/veusz-pre0.5.tar.gz
> unpack, cd to veusz, and run
> python setup.py bdist
[...]
> error: can't copy 'ERSION': doesn't exist or not a regular file

You are not using an official distutils build, but an internal
(modified?) version "setuptools". Please use
"from distutils.core import setup"
instead of
"from setuptools import setup"

Then it works.

Regards,
  Bastian
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