doc/overview.rst: No such file or directory

[Tres Seaver]

testtools 0.9.9 doesn't install from PyPI::

 $ /opt/Python-2.7.0/bin/virtualenv --no-site-packages /tmp/testtools
 New python executable in /tmp/testtools/bin/python
 Installing setuptools............................done.
 $ /tmp/testtools/bin/easy_install testtools
 Searching for testtools
 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/testtools/
 Reading https://launchpad.net/testtools
 Best match: testtools 0.9.9
 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/testtools/testtools-0.9.9.tar.gz#md5=113b56d02c6558ecdf842b73953541b3
 Processing testtools-0.9.9.tar.gz
 Running testtools-0.9.9/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-d5cOMY/testtools-0.9.9/egg-dist-tmp-HHEUO8
 error: /tmp/easy_install-d5cOMY/testtools-0.9.9/doc/overview.rst: No such file or directory

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Thanks! What are the placeholder.txt files for?

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

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On 04/11/2011 08:31 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Thanks! What are the placeholder.txt files for?

They keep the MANIFEST.in machinery from ignoring the empty directories:
 since conf.py calls them out, I wanted to make sure that the docs would
build even inside the unpacked sdist tree.

Tres.
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