[tahoe-dev] 1.9.0 tarball broken

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:43 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
>
>>> Why doesn't the setup code force the umask?
>>> It seems like this should not depend on the environment.
>
> Yes, this is a bug in setuptools.

No, if it is a bug, it is a bug in distutils.

> We need to stop using setuptools.

Switching to another tool would be trading out these bugs for
different bugs. In any case, casual assertions in mailing list threads
probably isn't a very productive way forward on that issue.

Regards,

Zooko