[Distutils] package data not installed from python .egg file

[Roban Hultman Kramer]

Thanks very much! That was an easy fix on my end. Combining that with
a MANIFEST.in file, and the data gets included and installed properly
with bdist_egg and sdist.  I really appreciate your help.

-Roban

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 11/3/2010 +0100, Roban Hultman Kramer wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get the package_data files to
>> be installed when easy_install unzips the egg file?
>
> The issue is the '..' in your data file names; currently
> setuptools.archive_util refuses to extract files with '..' in their path.
>  I'm going to go ahead and fix this, but even after I do, please note that
> it will continue to be a problem for versions of easy_install that are out
> there "in the wild".
>
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig