[spambayes-dev] Re: test_storage.py failing

[Thomas Heller]

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

>> They were coming from the right place.  I eventually figured out that
>> distutils didn't overwrite my installed copy when I tried
>> installing from a
>> new CVS version.
>>
>> Sorry for the false alarm.  I wonder if I should file a bug
>> report against
>> distutils...
>
> I have seen similar things with distutils.  If the 'installed' file has a
> later date than the file being installed, distutils decides not to install
> it.
>
> I struck this when I modified an installed version of a file, making a quick
> hack of a change for debugging.  My idea was that by changing it in the
> installed copy, I wouldn't need to undo the change, and would just rely on
> distutils to overwrite with the correct copy.
>
> I went so far as stepping through distutils in a debugger before I saw that
> was the intent of the code.  I agree it sucks, but it doesn't appear to be a
> bug.

There's a '--force' command line option for distutils' install command
for that.

Thomas