[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

Wed Sep 26 09:24:29 EDT 2007

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 04:49, Christian Theune wrote:
>> The issue is that the eggs were released as ZIP files and for some
>> reason those don't work correctly with the data files.
>>
>> I can reproduce the problem by creating the packages myself as ZIP files
>> (doesn't work) and then as tar files (does work).
> 
> Okay, thanks a lot for this research. So this is a problem that noone could 
> anticipate. Roger tried the eggs on his machine and they worked there.

Yes, this is really a weird setuptools bug. Apparently it can't properly 
install package metadata from ZIP distributions on Linux and Mac.

> So that's something we learned: We have to make tag.gz releases.

Yes. You can do this via

   python setup.py sdist --format=gztar

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