On Mon, 16 May 2005 22:11:49 +1000, richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Machin wrote: >> richard wrote: >>> John Machin wrote: >>> > Sorry in advance if this is not the correct forum ... >>> >>> Quite. The support link for PyPI is in the sidebar of the site. >>> >> >> Tried that, when I was trying to register and getting strange error >> messages about the user name, like "John Machin" and "John_Machin" were >> not "ascii" [it finally permitted "sjmachin"]. The response volume >> could not be likened to that of a fire-hose. > >You mean the request you put in two days ago? Yes, that one. > Sorry I've not got around to >responding yet. It was admittedly low on my priority list because you were >the only person reporting the issue (out of hundreds of successful >registrations). I will now fill in the details you've just provided (ie the >input you used which broke the interface) Not me, yer 'onour; it wuz broken already. >so that when I get around to >fixing it I'll know what I'm looking for. > > >> Which is precisely how the file in question was generated: >> >> setup.py sdist --format=zip > >Try without the --format arg. The code is being too paranoid. Result: (A) produces a zip file with only minor differences (presumably a timestamp): C:\devel\xlrd\build\dist>fc /b xlrd-0.3a1.zip f:\xlrd_dist\xlrd-0.3a1.zip Comparing files xlrd-0.3a1.zip and F:\XLRD_DIST\XLRD-0.3A1.ZIP 0000000A: 59 B8 0000000B: B9 9E 0000000C: B0 AF 00009660: 59 B8 00009661: B9 9E 00009662: B0 AF C:\devel\xlrd\build\dist>dir *3a1*.zip 16/05/2005 11:10p 39,436 xlrd-0.3a1.zip C:\devel\xlrd\build\dist>dir f:\xlrd_dist\xlrd-0.3a1.zip 15/05/2005 07:53p 39,436 xlrd-0.3a1.zip (B) Exactly the same result from the PyPI upload attempt. > The code is being too paranoid Which code (distutils or PyPI server) is being paranoid about what??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
