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

Andy Todd andy47 at halfcooked.com
Fri Aug 20 23:19:27 CEST 2004


Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> 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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Actually I wasn't. My point was that the tarball does not include the 
build directory but that it ends up in our package directory under 
site-packages.

Regardless, it's not a platform specific issue so I'll take it to the 
distutils mailing list.

Regards,
Andy
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