[py-dev] setup.py broken in develop mode on trunk

[holger krekel]

Hi Martijn, 

thanks for noting ... 

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 18:46 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> In order to see whether a bugfix in Py trunk fixed a bug in my project, 
> I tried installing the py trunk as a develop egg (using buildout). It's 
> possible "python setup.py develop" is therefore similarly broken.
> 
> I see files mentioned in MANIFEST which don't exist, so initially I 
> thought this was blocking things. It turns out however that setup.py has 
> references to packages which at least don't appear to exist: py.io.test, 
> py.test.rsession, py.test.terminal. After I remove those from setup.py 
> things seem to work again (that is, I can run the code. I get errors. 
> Another mail about those...)

... and sorry for the confusion.  Actually the setup.py on
py/trunk resulted from a yesterday merge of release/0.9.x ... 
but i now regenerated the setup.py and MANIFEST files. 

> With setuptools, MANIFEST shouldn't be necessary: you can instruct 
> setup.py to automatically assume files that are checked into SVN are in 
> manifest, with something like this:
> 
> from setuptools import find_packages
> 
>        package_dir={'': 'src'},
>        packages=find_packages('py'),

ok, but for now i'd still like to be compatible to distutils
(a user can just switch a "1" to "0") and i am auto-generating 
the setup.py file so i don't care. 

let me know if the problems persist or things just work. 

holger