[Distutils] Bug in setuptools-0.6a11-py2.4 ?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:35 PM 6/7/2006 -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>I can't get setuptools to handle the fact that Amara has all its code in
>a subdir named lib, such that it used to work fine in plain distutils as
>follows:
>
>setup(package_dir = {'amara': 'lib'}, packages = ['amara'],...)
>
>This same invocation with setuptools does not give an error message, but
>  no packages are found or processed.
>
>I also tried:
>
>setup(package_dir = {'amara': 'lib'},
>       packages = find_packages(),
>
>setup(package_dir = {'amara': 'lib'},
>       packages = find_packages('lib'),
>
>setup(package_dir = {'amara': 'lib'},
>       packages = find_packages(),
>       packages = ['amara'],
>
>and many other desperate attempts, with no luck.
>
>It feels to me like a bug in setuptools with such a layout, but I'm
>really surprised, because it's so common,

Actually, it's pretty *un*common, and it's not a good layout to use for 
many reasons, including non-importability during development, user 
confusion in understanding the layout, and inconvenience (i.e., a more 
natural layout wouldn't require setting package_dir at all).

Merits of the layout aside, it should nonetheless work properly with 
setuptools, and I actually didn't have any problems with it.  (see further 
below)


>  and even covered explicitly by
>the distutils and setuptools docs.

Actually, setuptools only mentions creating a *parent* package, e.g. 
package_dir={'':'lib'}, where the 'amara' package directory would then be a 
subdirectory of lib.

Again, however, it *should* work, and as far as I can tell, it does.


>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.4suite.org:/var/local/cvsroot get Amara

I checked this out, and it builds an egg just fine for me under both 2.3 
and 2.4.  What problem are you having, exactly?


>One last thing: is there an issue tracker for setuptools?

You're speaking to him now.  :)