This is related to a diecutter bug: in archive, dates are wrong...
So once extracted, setup.py install fails..
$ tox
GLOB sdist-make: /mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/setup.py
ERROR: invocation failed, logfile: /mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/.tox/log/tox-0.log
ERROR: actionid=tox
msg=packaging
cmdargs=['/mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/env/bin/python', local('/mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/setup.py'), 'sdist', '--formats=zip', '--dist-dir', local('/mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/.tox/dist')]
env=None
running sdist
running egg_info
creating lala.egg-info
writing requirements to lala.egg-info/requires.txt
writing lala.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to lala.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to lala.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'lala.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'lala.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
warning: no files found matching 'CHANGELOG'
writing manifest file 'lala.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.txt
warning: check: missing required meta-data: url
creating lala-0.1.dev0
creating lala-0.1.dev0/lala
creating lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
making hard links in lala-0.1.dev0...
hard linking AUTHORS -> lala-0.1.dev0
hard linking MANIFEST.in -> lala-0.1.dev0
hard linking README.rst -> lala-0.1.dev0
hard linking VERSION -> lala-0.1.dev0
hard linking setup.py -> lala-0.1.dev0
hard linking lala/__init__.py -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala
hard linking lala.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
hard linking lala.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
hard linking lala.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
hard linking lala.egg-info/not-zip-safe -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
hard linking lala.egg-info/requires.txt -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
hard linking lala.egg-info/top_level.txt -> lala-0.1.dev0/lala.egg-info
Writing lala-0.1.dev0/setup.cfg
creating .tox/dist
creating '.tox/dist/lala-0.1.dev0.zip' and adding 'lala-0.1.dev0' to it
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 56, in <module>
entry_points=ENTRY_POINTS,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/mnt/data/web/diecutter/lala/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 147, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 464, in make_distribution
owner=self.owner, group=self.group)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 392, in make_archive
owner=owner, group=group)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/archive_util.py", line 237, in make_archive
filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/archive_util.py", line 169, in make_zipfile
zip.write(path, path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 1126, in write
zinfo = ZipInfo(arcname, date_time)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 305, in __init__
raise ValueError('ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980')
ValueError: ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980
ERROR: FAIL could not package project
This is related to a diecutter bug: in archive, dates are wrong...
So once extracted, setup.py install fails..