Correct setup.py under Windows (not bug, not request, but commit)

[temoto]

I'm sorry for incorrect place to report such thing.

Documentation says under Windows one should just copy django directory tree to site-packages and it will work.

If i try to run setup.py install, i get directory "\django" access error. That can be corrected if i increment root_len by one. Script uses correct "django" with no leading backslash path then and it installs perfectly.

So all we have to change is these lines in setup.py:

root_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
len_root_dir = len(root_dir)
django_dir = os.path.join(root_dir, 'django')

to:

root_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
len_root_dir = len(root_dir)
if os.name == "nt": len_root_dir++
django_dir = os.path.join(root_dir, 'django')

I'm sorry not to attach a diff. I'm sure you want to change style or something.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

The setup.py in 0.96 has a number of problems on Windows. Try grabbing the version from subversion (just the setup.py file) and see if that solves your problems. We've made a number of fixes to it.

You can download the latest file from ​here (use the "plain text" link at the bottom).

Please reopen the ticket with details of what went wrong if that doesn't solve your problem, but it will certainly be better than the version in 0.96.