[Sugar-devel] setup.py not including bookcatalog.txt in Read Etexts XO file

[Walter Bender]

Is bookcatalog.txt in your git repository? MANIFEST is long
deprecated. setup.py looks to git to know what to include.

regards.

-walter

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:24 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just updated my laptop to the latest release of Sugar so I could test my
> latest xo file for Read Etexts.  What I discovered is that when you enter
>
> ./setup.py dist_xo
>
> the file created does NOT contain bookcatalog.txt, even though that is
> listed in MANIFEST but does contain .gitignore which is NOT in MANIFEST.
> The activity needs to contain bookcatalog.txt to work.  This file is NOT in
> the Git repository.  It needs to be recreated from files downloaded from
> Project Gutenberg and PG Australia.  It doesn't make sense to put it into
> Git because it is a data file.  However, Read Etexts won't work without it.
>
> In the past setup.py always put this file in my .xo and I'm wondering why it
> isn't doing it now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
>
>
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