[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: [Pythoncard-users] Re: Item missing from PythonCard 0.8 install?

[Kevin Altis]

Is there a distutils bug in Python 2.3.0 on Mac OS X (Panther) that was  
fixed in later releases? See the message below. If so, I guess I'll  
have to start building the tar.gz files on a different OS.

ka

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Andy Todd" <andy47 at halfcooked.com>
> Date: August 20, 2004 9:24:15 AM PDT
> To: "Kevin Altis" <altis at semi-retired.com>
> Cc: "pythoncard-Users" <pythoncard-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] Re: Item missing from PythonCard 0.8  
> install?
>
> Kevin Altis wrote:
>>
<snip>
>> There is one other bit of weirdness on the Mac that I don't really   
>> understand since I don't remember distutils doing this before. It is   
>> copying all the package files to /Library/Python2.3/PythonCard and  
>> then  creating a build directory with lib/PythonCard and scripts-2.3  
>> dirs  inside that. Does Linux do that too? Perhaps I need to revise  
>> the  commands I run and/or setup.py script, but this is clearly  
>> wrong,  though harmless, except for burning additional disk space.  
>> Did I  mention that distutils is my nemesis? ;-)
> [snip]
>
> Hmm, I think it might just be you Kevin ;-) Downloading the tarball  
> from  SourceForge on my linux machine and running 'python setup.py  
> install' gives me the build directory under  
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCard
>
> But, when I do a fresh check out of the PythonCard module and build my  
> own tarball (using 'python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar') the  
> problem disappears.
>
> When I do the same thing on my Mac I see the same problem that you do.  
> Ergo, it's a bug in Python 2.3.0 which was fixed in one of the  
> releases up to 2.3.4 (which I'm running on Linux).
>
> Do you want me to build a 0.8 tarball on my machine? Or should we wait  
> until a few more fixes are in and include this in 0.8.1?
>
> Regards,
> Andy
> --  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> From the desk of Andrew J Todd esq - http://www.halfcooked.com/
>
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