[Pythonmac-SIG] Item missing from PythonCard 0.8 install?

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Aug 20 22:38:38 CEST 2004


On Aug 20, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:

> For what it's worth, I always get a ./build directory when I do 
> "python setup.py build" on OS X, with any distutils setup.  Since I 
> rarely use distutils on other platforms, I didn't know this behaviour 
> differed.  I suspect it's still creating the build directory on other 
> systems, but either a) deletes it afterwards, or b) puts it in /tmp or 
> somewhere non-obvious.  But I have no evidence for either handy.

That is expected behavior on all platforms, he is talking about when he 
makes a sdist tarball it includes the build directory.  My feeling is 
that he screwed up MANIFEST.in or setup.py ..

-bob



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