[FE-discuss] Formencode install fails for python2.5

[Vijay R. <vi...@ac...>]

Hi ,

I tried installing formencode from the svn source tarball and got the 
following trace  ( Python 2.5 , setuptools 0.7a1 ) :

running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
creating FormEncode.egg-info
writing requirements to FormEncode.egg-info\requires.txt
writing FormEncode.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to FormEncode.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to FormEncode.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'FormEncode.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no files found matching '*.py' under directory '.'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 27, in <module>
     extras_require={'testing': ['elementtree']},
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
     dist.run_commands()
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
     self.run_command(cmd)
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\install.py", line 76, in run
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\install.py", line 
92, in do_egg
_install
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
     self.distribution.run_command(command)
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\bdist_egg.py", line 
167, in run

   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
     self.distribution.run_command(command)
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 
171, in run
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 
252, in find
_sources
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 
308, in run
   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\sdist.py", line 
157, in read_te
mplate
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\command\sdist.py", line 335, in 
read_template
     self.filelist.process_template_line(line)
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\filelist.py", line 130, in 
process_template_li
ne
     (action, patterns, dir, dir_pattern) = self._parse_template_line(line)
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\filelist.py", line 105, in 
_parse_template_lin
e
     dir = convert_path(words[1])
   File "e:\Python25\lib\distutils\util.py", line 140, in convert_path
     raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot end with '/'" % pathname
ValueError: path 'docs/' cannot end with '/'


Vijay Rao