[spambayes-dev] test_storage.py failing

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Sorry for the false alarm.  I wonder if I should file a bug report
    >> against distutils...

    Mark> I have seen similar things with distutils.  If the 'installed'
    Mark> file has a later date than the file being installed, distutils
    Mark> decides not to install it.

I think cvs exacerbates the problem by setting the mod time of checked out
files to the last checkin date.  Here's a listing of the Outlook2000 in my
~/tmp/spambayes directory:

    % ls -ltr Outlook2000/
    total 284
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        4102 Oct  3 00:23 README.txt
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        1779 Dec 14 05:23 default_bayes_customize.ini
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        7199 Dec 15 23:06 train.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        3539 Dec 15 23:06 oastats.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        6205 Dec 15 23:06 config_wizard.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff       57355 Dec 19 00:25 msgstore.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        7105 Dec 19 00:27 filter.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff       39497 Dec 20 05:21 manager.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff       18414 Dec 21 21:13 config.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff       73521 Dec 21 21:16 addin.py
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff        7407 Dec 21 21:17 about.html
    drwxrwxr-x   15 skip     staff         510 Dec 23 22:00 dialogs
    drwxrwxr-x    7 skip     staff         238 Dec 23 22:00 docs
    drwxrwxr-x   11 skip     staff         374 Dec 23 22:00 sandbox
    drwxrwxr-x   10 skip     staff         340 Dec 23 22:00 installer
    drwxrwxr-x    6 skip     staff         204 Dec 23 22:00 images
    -rw-rw-r--    1 skip     staff       29666 Dec 23 22:06 tester.py
    -rw-r--r--    1 skip     staff        8209 Dec 29 15:58 export.py
    drwxrwxr-x    5 skip     staff         170 Dec 29 15:58 CVS

Note that I created the entire tree just a few days before Christmas, yet
the README.txt file has a timestamp of October 3rd.

    Mark> I went so far as stepping through distutils in a debugger before I
    Mark> saw that was the intent of the code.  I agree it sucks, but it
    Mark> doesn't appear to be a bug.

Maybe there's a flag in cvs which will set the timestamp appropriately.
Alternatively, I suppose a 'find . -type f | xargs touch' would work for us
Unix geeks.  Still, it's surprising.

(Best thing would be to install if the source and destination files have
different checksums.)

Skip