[Distutils] setuptools and packages with dots

[Benji York]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 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?  :)

Perhaps directories who's names are not valid Python package names 
should be ignored.
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation