Need help with distutils

[Andy Todd]

"A.M. Kuchling" <akuchlin at crystal.mems-exchange.org> wrote in 
news:slrnab3gei.1i0.akuchlin at crystal.mems-exchange.org:

> In article <Xns91EA988AA8260andy47halfcookedcom at 203.109.252.31>, 
>    Andy Todd wrote:
>> notice that the pattern you pass to global-exclude has to be a Unix-
style 
>> "glob" pattern. In that notation '.' is a special character so using 
>> '.cvsignore' doesn't actually match your files ;-) 
> 
> No, '.' is not special in glob notation.

Which means that this is a bug? I can verify that ".cvsignore" doesn't work 
and "*cvsignore" does.
  
> 
>> Also note that this isn't properly implemented for distutils on Windows 
or 
>> Mac. If you try and package a source distribution on Windows, for 
instance, 
>> you will get all of your CVS directories in the .zip file as well. 
> 
> Can you please file a bug for this?
> 
> --amk
> 

Certainly can, we've found a couple of other issues with distutils when 
trying to package PythonCard. I'll switch this discussion to the distutils-
sig.

Regards,
Andy
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