[issue8286] distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

Repro steps on a Windows machine:

1. pip install --no-install django-navbar==0.2

Yes, it seems like a bug in the MANIFEST file of the django-navbar project (which is not mine) that seems to have been fixed in the subsequent 0.3 release.

> at best it needs a better error message.

+1

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title: distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -> distutils: path '[...]' cannot end with '/' -- need better error message
type: behavior -> feature request
versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 2.6

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