[Distutils] Progress on the first distribute release

[David Lyon]

Hi Hanno,

If I find anymore issues I can post them to there instead of the
mailing list.

Somebody should update the easy_install web site to direct users
to post to the tracker and not to the mailing list.

People are happy using Trackers and I'm starting to notice that
bug reports posted to the distutils mailing list are probably
being ignored at best.

Being ignored in a tracker is an entirely different thing - haha

David

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:28:07 +0200, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu>
wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> As promised I have gone through the setuptools tracker and tried to
> identify the easy and ready-to-apply patches. As a result I have
> applied the patches found in eight tickets [1] to the current
> distribute code.
> 
> If you have another issue that is similarly uncontroversial and like
> it to be fixed, please report a new issue at
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues/new.
> 
> I've readied my Windows box to build the required binary distributions
> and installers for the 0.6 release. So hopefully there's just a few
> more documentation updates to make, before we can get this release
> out.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hanno
> 
> [1] In all its gory details these issues were:
> 
> * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10.
> 
> * Allow find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail
> gracefully. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9.
> 
> * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry.
> This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8.
> 
> * Made api_tests.txt doctest compatible with Jython. This closes
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7.
> 
> * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open.
> This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6.
> 
> * Immediately close all file handles. This closes
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
> 
> * Backported old distutils behaviour for add_defaults, to avoid a
> recursive loop when setuptools builds the file list. This closes
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/2.
> 
> * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/1.
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