[Zope-dev] Release management proposal

[Martijn Faassen]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> 2. forbid the use of __file__ in setup.py. This breaks on systems
>    which do not have setuptools installed globally but rely on a
>    (zc.buildout-created) wrapper script. __file__ will point
>    to the wrapper script in those instances, which breaks setup.py.

This will break many setup.py scripts that use __file__ to integrate 
README.txt and such for publication on pypi. I think that's a useful 
feature we cannot just drop, so hopefully there's another solution.

Regards,

Martijn