Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > I am not going to move setup.py to the root directory just to work > around a a distutils bug. Fair enough.
> This distutils bug could cause it to overwrite files in other > directories, since it blindly adds relative paths to the build > directory. This is clearly broken. Ah, I hadn’t understood that. I agree with you. > I've changed my code to use os.path.abspath() while I wait for a > fix. Does this means that your code works with paths that go to the parent directory? I don’t know if it’s right to allow that (I mean this literally: I’m not the main maintainer and I don’t have much packaging experience). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9023> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
