[Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/9 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:
>> creating dist
>> Warning: Can't read registry to find the necessary compiler setting
>> Make sure that Python modules _winreg, win32api or win32con are installed.
>
> This is a warning, so can be ignored.
>
>> error:
>> /home/tseaver/projects/Zope-CVS/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/wininst-6.0ux-i686.exe:
>> No such file or directory
>
> This is a bug. That "ux-i686" part of the filename looks wrong.
>
> Yes, it's a bug in bdist_wininst, introduced in revision 62197, Mon
> Apr 7 01:53:39 2008 UTC.
>
> If I file a bug and it gets fixed, will you build installers for me? :-)
>
> (Seriously, thanks for trying this and locating the bug. I've raised
> it as http://bugs.python.org/issue5731).

Great thanks, I'll add a test and fix it right now, so this discussion
can continue, and distutils trunk will
get some beta testers ;)


>
> Paul.
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>



-- 
Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org
Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org
Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/