Re: ./setup.py install fails when trying to copy an icon folder

[Scott Kostyshak <scott kostyshak gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the response Kai. Since distutils was just introduced I
figured there were a lot of things that need to be ironed out. I guess
this is another wrinkle for you.

Scott