On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:28:14 +1200, "Tony Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> setup.py sdist --format=zip >>>>> >>>>> Try without the --format arg. The code is being too paranoid. >>>> >>>> Oh, so even without --format, a ZIP source dist file is produced >>>> anyway? If this is the case, please file a bug against PyPI. >>> >>> How is this a bug? sdist is meant to produce a zip file on >>> Windows if --format isn't used. If "upload" overrides this for some >>> reason, then the documentation should say so (and, IMO, it would be a >>> mistake for that to be the case). >> >> It's a bug against PyPI, not distutils. > >Did you mean that the bug is that PyPI won't accept a zipped source >distribution? To me, your message read like it was saying that (distutils) >producing a zip source distribution file without --format was a bug. > >So (if the former is what you meant) would a workaround for now be to do >something like: > > setup.py sdist --format=gztar upload (1) error: command 'tar' failed: No such file or directory (2) error: invalid command 'upload' FYI, there are a few unreconstructed diehards out here who neither run on a *x platform nor run bleeding-edge Python straight out of last night's CVS. Viz: Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
