[issue6884] Impossible to include file in sdist that starts with 'build' on Win32

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

[Nadeem]
> Not sure about a CI service, but if you want Windows for your own machine
> I believe you can get a free MSDN subscription:
Yep, I have one of these and downloaded an ISO, but I haven’t yet managed to set it up with qemu.

[Adam]
> ZTK (Zope toolkit) ended up with renting a windows (server) VM. http://winbot.zope.org/
> There we run a buildbot that does the windows releases of some packages
OK.  Too bad for me then.


Nadeem, thanks for your report.  We used to have one or two people working on distutils2 on Windows, but they got busy with other things or I scared them off, and now I just have to hope that my commits work, which clearly doesn’t work.  I’ll send a call for testers on some mailing lists.

Newlines are a particular sore point.  In many cases we don’t care about them and happily use splitlines to ignore platform differences; in some cases we really want LF on all platforms but there are no tests.

Please file reports for the bugs you’ve found, on this tracker.  Set the “Distutils2” component and I’ll be auto-nosy.

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