Bug: exception when try to install to subfolder with dist-info

[ilya-lavrenov]

Exception

Cmake code:

install(FILES "${openvino_tokenizers_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE"
              "${openvino_tokenizers_SOURCE_DIR}/third-party-programs.txt"
              "${openvino_tokenizers_SOURCE_DIR}/SECURITY.md"
        DESTINATION "${PY_BUILD_CMAKE_PACKAGE_NAME}-${PY_BUILD_CMAKE_PACKAGE_VERSION}.dist-info/licenses"
        COMPONENT openvino_tokenizers_licenses
        EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

When install to "${PY_BUILD_CMAKE_PACKAGE_NAME}-${PY_BUILD_CMAKE_PACKAGE_VERSION}.dist-info - works well.

[tttapa]

The error seems to originate from the distlib package, which py-build-cmake depends on for creating Wheel files.

Looking at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/binary-distribution-format/#the-dist-info-directory, adding subdirectories to the .dist-info folder is not explicitly disallowed, but not explicitly allowed either.

I would simply put them directly into .dist-info, without a subdirectory, but you may want to open an issue over at https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues.

_{As a side note, please post any code and error messages as text between code fences (triple backticks) instead of using screenshots.}

[ilya-lavrenov]

Ok, if it's not easy to fix, we can close ticket.

scikit-build-core creates licenses subfolder within dist-info, that is why I supposed it's easy to fix.

Example of such package https://pypi.org/project/openvino-tokenizers/#files

[tttapa]

Ok, if it's not easy to fix, we can close ticket.

Is suspect that the fix will be easy enough, but it should be fixed in the distlib package, not in the py-build-cmake package.

[ilya-lavrenov]

scikit-build-core WAs the issue somehow.

But maybe that project does not use distlib

In general, I consider an issue of your dependency is your issue 🔧