Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
Thanks for the report.
“No directory information from files is used to determine the final location of
the installed file; only the name of the file is used”
I understand this line to mean that only the basename of the file will be used
in the target directory, IOW that ('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']) will create a
file in config/data.cfg, not config/cfg/data.cfg. I’m not 100% sure about my
reading though, this line is confusing.
Paths starting with '..' are relative, even if they’re not under the top-level
directory of the project (do the docs say they should be?), so the ability to
give '../../spam/whatever' as data file looks okay. However, it should not be
installed to target_dir/../../spam, that’s definitely a bug (coming from
os.path.join in cmd.Command.copy_file, I think).
If you want to write a test and fix, there are some guidelines at
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs
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assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo
components: +Distutils2
keywords: +easy
nosy: +fdrake
title: distutils.core.setup - data_files missbehaviour ? ->
distutils.core.setup - data_files misbehaviour ?
versions: +3rd party, Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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