On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:06:16PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
On Thursday 24 January 2008, Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
Probably you know already. That's a (linux) bug in the python tar library. I did nothing wrong. It's just broken if you extract the files from the egg. on linux. Everything is build correct.
Could you clearify why the package I built works then? That's the great mystery I suppose ;)
Because UNIX built packages work on UNIX and Windows. But Windows built packages only work on Windows.
This email contains the explanation -- it's a bug in distutils/setuptools: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-September/008296.html Note that the latest setuptools release (setuptools 0.6c7) does NOT contain the fix. Marius Gedminas -- For vi emulation of emacs, just type ":sh emacs" (without the quotes).