durusmail: quixote-users: bug report: 0.20 on MacOS
bug report: 0.20 on MacOS
2001-06-06
2001-06-06
bug report: 0.20 on MacOS
Greg Ward
2001-06-06
On 06 June 2001, Goodger, David said:
> I uncovered one small bug when installing Quixote on MacOS. The setup.py
> file's setup call contains a keyword argument:
>
>        package_dir = {'quixote':'.'},
>
> This doesn't work on MacOS, where '.' doesn't mean anything. It's fixed by
> first doing an 'import os' then changing the line to:
>
>        package_dir = {'quixote': os.curdir},
>
> This ought to work on all OSes.

An empty string ought to work as well -- ISTR that Distutils
special-cases the empty string to mean "current directory".

        Greg
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