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

[Ville Vainio]

On 2/18/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> At 07:45 AM 02/15/2006 -0800, Ville Vainio wrote:
> >error: i:\temp\easy_install-cg_eo8\trunk\MANIFEST.in: Permission denied

> Hm.  I could've sworn I already fixed this issue, at least if it's what I
> think.  Subversion on some Windows setups ends up making files read-only
> and not deletable by easy_install, so when it goes to clean up the
> temporary directory with the checkout in it, it fails.  I thought I'd
> already worked around this, though.  Are you using the latest setuptools
> (0.6a10)?

Yes, I'm using 0.6a10. The problem appears to be specific to WinXP, on
my work Win2k machine it works ok.

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