Re: [cclib-devel] Problem putting release together

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

On 22/09/2007, Karol Langner <kar...@kn...> wrote:
> 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.

I think the MANIFEST.in is probably fine (although I'm not sure :-/).
The problem is that there were several changes around that time and I
couldn't figure out which was causing the specific problem. For
example, when I removed all references to the data directory from
MANIFEST.in, it still copied the data directory into the installation
(and I tried deleting all temporary directories and so on). Once we've
done the release, I'd like to spend a little time on this going
through step by step, and discussing the results with you guys. It's
not very interesting, of course.

> > > 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.

It was only when I concentrated on making a distribution that I
realised that there were problems. The "setup.py install" has been
working fine.

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