[New-bugs-announce] [issue14004] Distutils filelist selects too many files on Windows

[Jason R. Coombs]

New submission from Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com>:

When using a MANIFEST.in with only "include *.txt", on Windows, distutils grabs too many files. I set DISTUTILS_DEBUG=1 and ran ./setup.py sdist on the keyring library and it included this output:

    include *.txt
    include_pattern: applying regex r'^[^/]*\.txt\Z(?ms)'
     adding CHANGES.txt
     adding CONTRIBUTORS.txt
     adding .hg\last-message.txt
     adding keyring.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
     adding keyring.egg-info\requires.txt
     adding keyring.egg-info\SOURCES.txt
     adding keyring.egg-info\top_level.txt

As you can see, this is not a recursive include, but it's matching several files not in the supplied pattern (files in .hg/ and keyring.egg-info/).

It's obvious from the regular expression that the regex doesn't properly account for os.sep.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 153302
nosy: eric.araujo, jason.coombs, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Distutils filelist selects too many files on Windows
versions: Python 2.7

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