On 2008-01-24 22:28:19 +0100, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> said:
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 ;) =20 Because UNIX built packages work on UNIX and Windows. But Windows built= =20 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.
So let's hope there will be a release which fixes this soon. This is very disturbing. And meanwhile we should not make releases on windows, should we. -- Christian Zagrodnick gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstrasse 29 · 06112 halle/saale www.gocept.com · fon. +49 345 12298894 · fax. +49 345 12298891