[Distutils] Including an empty directory
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Mon Apr 2 11:05:01 2001
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:44:07PM +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>How can I tell Distutils to include an empty directory in the source
>code distribution?
Hmm... looks like you can't. If a file fails an os.path.isfile()
check, sdist.py skips it and prints a warning. That's probably worth
loosening. Creating directories makes sense, but I don't think we
need to support symlinks or more exotic file types such as pipes.
--amk