[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/inst - setup.py:1.1.2.2

[Guido van Rossum]

> I will recheck that it's necessary.  It made things work for me. ;-)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>
> Cc: <zope-coders@zope.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/inst - setup.py:1.1.2.2
> 
> 
> > Chris McDonough wrote:
> > >  
> > >  AUTHOR = 'Zope Corporation and Contributors'
> > > +if sys.platform == 'win32':
> > > +    def abspath(path): return path
> > > +    os.path.abspath = abspath
> > 
> > that's pretty extreme :-S
> > 
> > What necessetated that?

You probably want to test for absence of os.path.abspath rather than
Win32.  Also, a better fallback is this:

  def abspath(path):
      if not os.path.isabs(path):
          return os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)