when ez_setup.py appears at the top-level, it goes missing from the tarball

[Barry Warsaw]

I have an ez_setup.py in my top-level directory, i.e. it's a sibling to the package directory. This file is maintained under bzr, but 'setup.py sdist' doesn't seem to add it to the tarball. Similarly for eggs.

[Servilio Afre Puentes (servilio)]

I have just installed version 2.1 from python.org and it is affected by this.

[Servilio Afre Puentes (servilio)]

Correcting myself: tried to install from python.org, but the install failed because ez_setup.py is missing from the tarball.

[Maurits van Rees (maurits-vanrees)]

To clarify the above statement from Servilio: the setuptools_bzr 2.1 release on PyPI is itself affected by this, so this version cannot be installed. Full traceback here (with python2.4; python2.6 is similar):

$ bin/easy_install setuptools_bzr
Searching for setuptools-bzr
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools_bzr/
Reading https://launchpad.net/setuptoolsbzr
Best match: setuptools-bzr 2.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools_bzr/setuptools_bzr-2.1.tar.gz#md5=f296133b7e3ffce1d6a2ad31787de0bf
Processing setuptools_bzr-2.1.tar.gz
Running setuptools_bzr-2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/KA/KAXdMSFEHom0r8QU1jW-Jk+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-_FF58A/setuptools_bzr-2.1/egg-dist-tmp-Tu2Nrz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/easy_install", line 8, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1883, in main
    with_ei_usage(lambda:
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1864, in with_ei_usage
    return f()
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1887, in <lambda>
    distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/buildout/python/parts/opt/lib/python2.4/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/buildout/python/parts/opt/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/buildout/python/parts/opt/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 349, in run
    self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 589, in easy_install
    return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 619, in install_item
    dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 809, in install_eggs
    return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1086, in build_and_install
    self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1075, in run_setup
    run_setup(setup_script, args)
  File "/Users/mauritsvanrees/envs/py24/lib/python2.4/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.4.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in run_setup
...

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Sadly, I don't use this module anymore so I'm disinclined to continue supporting it. I would be happy to review patches though, or better yet, hand the module off to someone who does want to continue supporting it.

[Richard Gomes (frgomes)]

try this:

$ python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip

see: http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/sourcedist.html