Re: [cclib-devel] Problem putting release together

[Karol L. <kar...@kn...>]

On Friday 21 September 2007 07:31, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> On 21/09/2007, Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...> wrote:
> > Karol,
> >
> > I'm getting bogged down in the changes you made to setup.py in r643. I
> > didn't realise (from the log message at the time) that you had done
> > this, and I'm not sure what the purpose of these changes are.
The purpose was to simplify creating new source distributions, by not having 
to run manifest.py every time. According to the Pythons docs, MANIFEST.in s 
supposed to be platform-independent.

> > You 
> > appear to have hardcoded the location of site-package on the user's
> > system, for example. This is just asking for trouble...
True. I generalized this in r682 (in the spirit of NumPy, if I remember 
correctly), although I'm not certain that it is now entirely OK.

> > I'm trying to track down the problems with the files included in the
> > distribution (when I create it on Windows). Currently, even the .svn
> > directories in the data dir are being included. This encourages me to
> > go back to using manifest.py, rather than MANIFEST.in...
>
> This issue is resolved now. I just needed to clean out the temporary
> directories from the build, and there are no problems. Maybe it's all
> okay now...I'll try and see can I make another release....
Please keep us informed on the list on how things are behaving on Windows. I 
test cclib on a daily basis only under Linux, so some things are bound to 
escape my attention. This is a marginal issue in terms of functonality, so it 
doesn't really matter which revision goes into 0.8b, as long as it works.

> > I'd like to get out a beta release as soon as possible...
I've been travelling alot in the past 2-3 weeks and been quite busy at work. 
In the nearest week(s) I will have the time to help out with any problems 
with the release.

Cheers,
Karol

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written by Karol Langner
Sat Sep 22 01:10:51 EDT 2007