Django 0.96 installation problem in Windows XP.

[zoltan.jose@…]

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)

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(Fixed up wiki-formatting in summary.)

Can you print out what the value of __file__ is when you run setup.py? Just put in a print statement before the line that sets root_dir. I'm trying to work out if __file__ is not set correctly or if os.path.dirname() is returning the wrong thing.