[Distutils] setuptools and packages with dots

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:34 PM 4/12/2007 -0400, Benji York wrote:
>% python setup.py develop
>running develop
>running egg_info
>writing requirements to test.egg-info/requires.txt
>writing test.egg-info/PKG-INFO
>writing top-level names to test.egg-info/top_level.txt
>writing dependency_links to test.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
>error: package directory 'bad/dir' does not exist
>
>It looks like somewhere in setuptools paths are being normalized to
>package names and back.  The dot doesn't survive the round trip.

Er...  so?  :)