Need help with distutils

Mon Apr 8 12:14:11 EDT 2002

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.  

> 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