Message263591
If a package has directories with names in APP CAPS, distutils.commands.bdist_msi creates properties for them that are also in all caps.
Such properties are handled specially by MSI and are called "public properties (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/properties.html).
Due to the way bdist_msi-produced .msi's work, this ultimately results in subtrees of these directories being duplicated to a bogus location (the root directory of the drive on which the .msi being installed is).
E.g. in the attached example, all <python>\Lib\mercurial\locale\<code>\LC_MESSAGES subtrees got duplicated to D:\Lib\<etc>.
See https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5192 for details (including a high-level description of how bdist_msi packages work). |
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2016-04-16 22:06:30 | Ivan.Pozdeev | set | recipients:
+ Ivan.Pozdeev, paul.moore, tim.golden, eric.araujo, zach.ware, steve.dower, dstufft |
2016-04-16 22:06:30 | Ivan.Pozdeev | set | messageid: <1460844390.43.0.520967711704.issue26786@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2016-04-16 22:06:30 | Ivan.Pozdeev | link | issue26786 messages |
2016-04-16 22:06:30 | Ivan.Pozdeev | create | |
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