MacPython-OS9 distutils breaks on OSX

[jackjansen]

BPO	740424
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Files	distutils+CW8problem.pdf

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[jackjansen]

MacPython-OS9 distutils (or actually the underlying mkcwproject
package) does not always work on OSX. The problem is that
references to the GUSI source tree are relative pathnames to the
Python sourcetree with :: in them, and CW (at least CW7) doesn't
understand this when running on OSX.

[jvr]

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I've observed that (at least with CW8) _all_ pathnames are wrong: they do use
/, but the paths are constructed as if they are OS9 paths, ie. the start with
the volume name ( /MyHD/rest/of/path )

[jackjansen]

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Just: do you mean that *no* distutils-based packages build correctly with
MacPython-OS9 on OSX with CW8 because of the incorrect pathnames?

[jvr]

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I didn't do a _lot_ of testing, but it sure looked like it simply doesn't work at
all.

[jvr]

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I have attached a screenshot which illustrates the problem
(access paths are OS9-style but with OSX separator). This
is with OS9MacPython 2.2.3 as posted today. Do you have any
tips on where to look? I'm not familiar with the distutils CW back
end at all.

[jvr]

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It appears to be a bug in CW8: the paths are correct in the
generated XML, and they are correctly marked as formatted for
MacOS.

However, if I manually tweak the paths in the XML file, I get lots
of other errors, so I'm tempted to punt, and forget about distutils
for CW 8 :-(. I'm so fedup with CW.