[Distutils] unusual platform-dependent problem with tarfile createdby setuptools

[Michael Bayer]

mac specific ?  i dont think so.  however,  perhaps something in the file
is being incorrectly construed as mac-specific (but still, I dont think
so).

heres the code:

http://www.myghty.org/trac/browser/myghtyutils/trunk/test/Container.py

and the full set of imports...

from myghtyutils.container import *
import myghtyutils.buffer as buffer
import random, time, weakref, sys, re
import testbase
import unittest, sys

try:
    import thread
except:
    raise "this test requires a thread-enabled python"

and from then on its just unit tests.   Ill see if just having a file
called "Container.py" with minimal python in it produces the same results
(not at an appropriate workstation at the moment).


Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 2:36 AM, Michael Bayer wrote:
>> MyghtyUtils-0.52/test/testbase.py
>>
>> however, when you run "python setup.py sdist" on an OS X machine
>> (interestingly, *not* on a windows machine), the resulting tar/gz
>> file contains an extra file:
>>
>> 	MyghtyUtils-0.52/test/._Container.py
>>
>> no idea why that is...but this creates problems on windows.
>
> test/Container.py contains a resource-fork or some other mac-specific
> attribute. At least in plain distutils 'sdist' seems to the platform
> tar and on OSX that creates ._* files for mac-specific attributes/
> resource-forks.
>
> Ronald
>
>