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List:       zope-dev
Subject:    [Zope-dev] Re: AW: zope.viewlet 3.4.1 release broken
From:       Christian Zagrodnick <cz () gocept ! com>
Date:       2008-01-25 7:36:34
Message-ID: fnc3i2$qkm$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 2008-01-24 22:28:19 +0100, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> said:

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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:06:16PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 January 2008, Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>>>> Probably you know already. That's a (linux) bug in the python
>>>> tar library. I did nothing wrong. It's just broken if you extract
>>>> the files from the egg. on linux. Everything is build correct.
>>>
>>> Could you clearify why the package I built works then? That's the great
>>> mystery I suppose ;)
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>> Because UNIX built packages work on UNIX and Windows. But Windows built>  
>> packages only work on Windows.
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> This email contains the explanation -- it's a bug in distutils/setuptools:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-September/008296.html
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> Note that the latest setuptools release (setuptools 0.6c7) does NOT
> contain the fix.

So let's hope there will be a release which fixes this soon. This is
very disturbing. And meanwhile  we should not make releases on windows,
should we.

--
Christian Zagrodnick

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www.gocept.com · fon. +49 345 12298894 · fax. +49 345 12298891



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