[Zope-dev] Re: AW: zope.viewlet 3.4.1 release broken

[Marius Gedminas]

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
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