[Zope3-dev] Completed: big checkins

[Guido van Rossum]

> > 1: Remove all of your *.pyc files from Zope3
> > 
> > Running the tests (through test.py) does this. 
> 
> Yes, but by the time test.py is finished, they have been added back.

That's not a problem is it?

> The reason for step 1 of my recipe is so that cvs up -dP removes some 
> directories that would conflict with module names if old .pyc files are 
> still there.

Ah, I see.  If that's what you want, "make clean" before the cvs
update does the job.

> > When we were using
> > stupid_build.py to build, it was also done automatically as a side
> > effect of building, but setup.py doesn't have this feature.  Maybe it
> > should be added back?  (Though I don't exactly know how this could be
> > integrated into setup.py using the proper distutils invocations.)
> 
> Perhaps, but it wouldn't help in this particular case.

I misunderstood the reason for removing .pyc files.

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