[python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2

[Vernon Cole]

I ran across this problem myself awhile back, and it seems to be
common enough that they added a feature to distutils to handle it.
I have added a copy of my setup.cfg to CVS, which contains:
<code>
[build]
force=1
[bdist_wininst]
user_access_control=auto
</code>

With "force=1", it should theoretically clean out the build directory
on every run.
--
Vernon

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> The Python 3.2 32-bit build was the only one affected and I've uploaded a
> 216.1 build for this version only.  It is identical to the 216 builds except
> for the build ID and the conversion of all files to py3k syntax.
>
> What went wrong?  I was incorrect the other day about the 32bit and 64bit
> versions sharing the same .py files - they do share the same "source" files
> obviously, but the build process copies them to a different directory for
> each build (the "build" directory).  The hacks I have in the build process
> for the 2to3 conversion do the conversion in-place in the build directory -
> which is error prone.  I'm fairly confident the problem was that I
> interrupted the build while 3.2 32-bits was being generated and while the
> 2to3 conversion was happening.  When I restarted the build, the logic which
> checks if files need copying determined that the build directory was
> up-to-date - even though the py3k conversion process wasn't complete.  As a
> result, that build directory was left alone with some pre-converted files.
>
> Sadly, it isn't trivial to fix this in distutils, so I am just going to need
> to be more careful when making future releases.  I *usually* am good about
> nuking the entire build tree and rebuilding the world before release, but
> now that I do that on a VM, a full build takes many hours to complete.  I
> took a shortcut and paid the price :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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