[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Tres Seaver]

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Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 04:49, Christian Theune wrote:
>> The issue is that the eggs were released as ZIP files and for some
>> reason those don't work correctly with the data files.
>>
>> I can reproduce the problem by creating the packages myself as ZIP files
>> (doesn't work) and then as tar files (does work).
> 
> Okay, thanks a lot for this research. So this is a problem that noone could 
> anticipate. Roger tried the eggs on his machine and they worked there.
> 
> So that's something we learned: We have to make tag.gz releases.

Why would we zip / tar files up by hand, rather than using 'setup.py sdist'?

> BTW, which OS so you use? Roger told me he did several releases with Windows 
> at Lovely Systems and all was fine there. But then everyone else at Lovely 
> has Macs.



Tres.
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