Re: Making setup.py run external command to build

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, at 23:04, Julian Smith wrote:
> I can't tell from pip-18.1's diagnostics what exactly is going wrong.
> 
> Given that my setup.py implements the normal distutils-style argv
> handling, i was expecting things to work, but pip-18.1 appears to fail
> before it even tries to run setup.py, so the only thing i can think of
> is that the PKG-INFO file could be causing a problem?

Looking at your package, I think the issue is that you have the files (setup.py etc.) in the top level of the tarball, but pip is expecting a <name>-<version> folder in the tarball which contains all the files.

The actual format of sdists is something that's not yet properly documented, as far as I know, but you can look at essentially any package to see what I mean in this case. E.g. six:

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6b/34/415834bfdafca3c5f451532e8a8d9ba89a21c9743a0c59fbd0205c7f9426/six-1.15.0.tar.gz

Thomas
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