These regex changes fix a number of issues for distutils on Windows:
- #6884: impossible to include a file starting with 'build'
- #9691 and #14004: sdist includes too many files
- #13193: test_filelist failures
This commit replaces the incorrect changes done in 0a94e2f807c7 and
90b30d62caf2 to fix#13193; we were too eager to fix the test failures
and I did not study the code enough before greenlighting patches. This
time we have unit tests from the problems reported by users to be sure
we have the right fix.
Thanks to Nadeem Vawda for his help.
The code used to call os.path.join to build a regex but without escaping
the backslash, which lead to test failures on Windows. Antoine Pitrou
fixed it in 0a94e2f807c7 by enhancing the code to accept both / and \,
with proper escaping, but in my opinion this goes against the distutils
feature freeze, hence this change.
Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
(Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
Bug reported by Hartmut Goebel and patch contributed by Carl Robben.
Carl tested the fix and we have a buildbot with rpm installed, so I’m
committing even though I could not run this test (but I do understand
the changed code :)
- Actually check the contents of the file created by bdist_dumb.
- Don’t use “RECORD” as filename for non-PEP 376 record file
- Don’t start method name with “_test”, it smells like a disabled test
method instead of an helper method
- Fix some idioms (assertIn, addCleanup)
