On Oct 26, 2013 6:39 PM, "Scott Kostyshak" <scott kostyshak gmail com> wrote:
>
> I can reproduce this with Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 and with current
> master branch (3ef9951f), but I see the same thing at 126bdb8b (the
> commit that introduced the port to Distutils). The command
>
> sudo ./setup.py install
>
> gives
>
> error: can't copy 'data/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps': doesn't
> exist or not a regular file
>
> data/icons/HighContrast/scalable/apps does exist but it's a folder.
>
> I'm fine with just linking to bin/meld but I wanted to report this. I
> understand that I'm dealing with a development branch, but I wanted to
> make sure you were aware of this. Let me know if there's any other
> information I can provide.
Thanks. At the moment I'm surprised that that's the biggest problem, but it's good to know nonetheless. I'll take a look when I get a chance, but I think an extensive dive into distutils awaits me for other reasons anyway.
Cheers,
Kai