Need help with distutils

[Peter Hansen]

"A.M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
> In article <Xns91EA988AA8260andy47halfcookedcom at 203.109.252.31>,
>    Andy Todd wrote:
> > notice that the pattern you pass to global-exclude has to be a Unix-style
> > "glob" pattern. In that notation '.' is a special character so using
> > '.cvsignore' doesn't actually match your files ;-)
> 
> No, '.' is not special in glob notation.

I believe it is special in glob.py, which explicitly excludes files
with a leading '.' unless the pattern explicitly includes a leading '.'
This may not be the issue involved, however.

-Peter