[Distutils] --skip-build misbehavior

[Philippe Normand]

Phillip J. Eby said:
> At 06:05 PM 11/21/2006 +0100, Philippe Normand wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>When I run that on a fresh checkout of my project (no build/ dir):
>>
>>python setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root tmp/
>>
>>I get a nice tmp/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mypackage.egg/
>>directory (zip_safe set to False in setup()).
>
> This appears to be a bug.  You should not be getting a .egg/ directory
> here, only a .egg-info/.
>
>

I confirms it's an egg directory, tested again on my home laptop.

>>  Then when I run :
>>
>>python setup.py build
>>
>>It creates a build/ directory as expected. Now if I run the first
>> command again, the packages internal to the egg are installed directly
>> in tmp/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ ...
>
> This is the correct behavior when using install --root; the use of
> --root  forces setuptools into a backward-compatible mode to work with
> system  packaging tools such as RPM.
>
>

Ah, ok. So I guess I now need to rename my "internal" package as the risk
of name clash is too high in this case. I though that by keeping
everything in the .egg I would be safe from potential collision. But I was
wrong :( Couldn't RPMs (or debs) ship directly the .egg/ directory?

>>Is this a bug or a feature? I reproduce it with 0.6c2 (on Fedora Core
>> 6) and 0.6c3 (on Ubuntu Edgy) versions of setuptools.
>
> If there's a bug, it would be in the behavior you described for
> "--skip-build", although I haven't investigated it yet.  Could you check
>  and make sure you weren't just seeing an .egg-info directory, rather
> than  an .egg?  Thanks.

Well as stated above I double checked on another machine running 0.6c3 on
Edgy.

BTW sorry for double mail, thought the first one wasn't delivered so used
another smtp ;)

Philippe