[Distutils] easy_install: Manifest.in "Permission denied" on windows

[Ville Vainio]

We are trying to make ipython installable from svn by doing

easy_install ipython==dev

On linux it works ok already, but not on Windows.

Here's a transcript:


[ipython]|20> easy_install -v ipython==dev
Searching for ipython==dev
Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/ipython/
Reading http://ipython.scipy.org
Reading http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.15.tar.gz
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.15.win32.exe
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.7.1.fix1-py2.3.egg
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.7.1.fix1-py2.4.egg
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.7.1.fix1.tar.gz
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.7.1.fix1.win32.exe
Found link: http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk#egg=ipython-dev
Best match: ipython dev
Downloading http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk#egg=ipython-dev
Doing subversion checkout from http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trun
k to i:\temp\easy_install-cg_eo8\trunk
Processing trunk
Running setup.py bdist_egg --dist-dir i:\temp\easy_install-cg_eo8\trunk\egg-dist
-tmp-b2444u
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
creating ipython.egg-info
writing ipython.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to ipython.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing entry points to ipython.egg-info\entry_points.txt
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no previously-included files found matching 'doc\ChangeLog.*'
error: i:\temp\easy_install-cg_eo8\trunk\MANIFEST.in: Permission denied

I suppose deleting manifest.in would fix the whole issue (it did when
I tried it the last time a week or so ago, but I was pressed for time
and couldn't explore it enough back then). It's desirable to keep the
MANIFEST.in file because it's used by package maintainers.

Any pointers?

MANIFEST.in is readable at

http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk/MANIFEST.in

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