Hello good folks,
A short description - Django 0.96 does not install on Windows XP. The command "setup.py install" ( or "setup.py build" ) does not work... it gives the following error output:
running install
running build
running build_py
error: package directory '\django' does not exist
I hacked around a bit and found the problem in the setup.py file. The original relevant portion is:
# Compile the list of packages available, because distutils doesn't have
# an easy way to do this.
packages, data_files = [], []
root_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
len_root_dir = len(root_dir)
django_dir = os.path.join(root_dir, 'django')
I reckoned that the "root directory" was not being recognised properly... so I made the following change:
# Compile the list of packages available, because distutils doesn't have
# an easy way to do this.
packages, data_files = [], []
root_dir = "C:\\Django-0.96\\Django-0.96\\" (NOTE: I manually added the 'root' directory pertinent to my system)
len_root_dir = len(root_dir)
django_dir = os.path.join(root_dir, 'django')
The above worked like magic without any hassles. So what's up guys, is this a bug or what? BTW, I had the latest installer tool :
setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.exe installed in my system.
Thanks and Regards,
Timmy Jose (a.k.a z0ltan)
