[Distutils] setup script not found when directory name is 100 characters

[Maurits van Rees]

Hi,

I'm sure I have read this somewhere, but my search skills are failing
me.  When easy installing a package this goes wrong:

$ bin/easy_install ../foo.bar/dist/foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz 
Processing foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz
error: Couldn't find a setup script in ../foo.bar/dist/foo.bar-1.0.3.tar.gz

The cause is that there is a directory foo.bar-1.0.3/.../baz for which
the length of this path is exactly 100 characters.  When I release a
version 1.1 instead, this path is reduced to 98 characters and
easy_install happily installs it.

Does anyone know which version of setuptools or easy_install
introduced this problem or fixes it?  Or a link where this is
explained?

Thanks,

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