New submission from Ivan Pozdeev: If a package has directories with names in APP CAPS, distutils.commands.bdist_msi creates properties for them that are also in all caps.
Such properties are handled specially by MSI and are called "public properties (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/properties.html). Due to the way bdist_msi-produced .msi's work, this ultimately results in subtrees of these directories being duplicated to a bogus location (the root directory of the drive on which the .msi being installed is). E.g. in the attached example, all <python>\Lib\mercurial\locale\<code>\LC_MESSAGES subtrees got duplicated to D:\Lib\<etc>. See https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5192 for details (including a high-level description of how bdist_msi packages work). ---------- components: Distutils, Library (Lib), Windows files: mercurial-3.3.2.log.gz messages: 263591 nosy: Ivan.Pozdeev, dstufft, eric.araujo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: bdist_msi duplicates directories with names in ALL CAPS to a bogus location type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42495/mercurial-3.3.2.log.gz _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26786> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
