Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]
Philipp von Weitershausen <[email protected]>
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Stephan Richter wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 04:49, Christian Theune wrote: >> The issue is that the eggs were released as ZIP files and for some >> reason those don't work correctly with the data files. >> >> I can reproduce the problem by creating the packages myself as ZIP files >> (doesn't work) and then as tar files (does work). > > Okay, thanks a lot for this research. So this is a problem that noone could > anticipate. Roger tried the eggs on his machine and they worked there. Yes, this is really a weird setuptools bug. Apparently it can't properly install package metadata from ZIP distributions on Linux and Mac. > So that's something we learned: We have to make tag.gz releases. Yes. You can do this via python setup.py sdist --format=gztar -- http://worldcookery.com -- Professional Zope documentation and training