[Distutils] setuptools v. subversion 1.6

[Jim Fulton]

IMO, include_package_data is an attractive nuisance. For newer  
projects, I just use package_data with a few globs.

Jim

On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I see setuptools still doesn't like subversion 1.6 working copies.
> Is that likely to change this century? :-(
>
> Worse still, I tried using:
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/client-side/change-svn-wc-format.py
>
> ..to downgrade the working copy with:
>
> python ../change-svn_wc_format.py --verbose . 1.4
>
> However, setuptools still whines:
>
> $ bin/buildout setup setup.py sdist
> Running setup script 'setup.py'.
> running sdist
> running egg_info
> writing requirements to mypackage.egg-info/requires.txt
> writing mypackage.egg-info/PKG-INFO
> writing top-level names to mypackage.egg-info/top_level.txt
> writing dependency_links to mypackage.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
> unrecognized .svn/entries format in
>
> ...uselessly: it does't actually tell me where the entries file is  
> that it has problems with.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug in change-svn-wc-format.py?
> How can I work around this?
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation