# HG changeset patch
# User Ralf Schlatterbeck <schlatterbeck@users.sourceforge.net>
# Date 1305278146 0
# Node ID 53e438d1ca19f40e47f5a97c8ee9d7361ba15005
# Parent  41ea7d838c828b4c74221a2a13bed709ffe45676
fix long_description again:

we can't build a windows-installer on Linux if the description is
unicode, see http://bugs.python.org/issue10945 (also python 2.6 builds
roundup-1.4.17.linux-i686.exe when building bdist_wininst where python
2.5 produces roundup-1.4.17.win32.exe, I'm building the windows binary
distro with 2.5 now)

diff -r 41ea7d838c82 -r 53e438d1ca19 CHANGES.txt
--- a/CHANGES.txt	Fri May 13 07:56:45 2011 +0000
+++ b/CHANGES.txt	Fri May 13 09:15:46 2011 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 are given with the most recent entry first. If no other name is given,
 Richard Jones did the change.
 
-2011-05-13 1.4.17 (r4603)
+2011-05-13 1.4.17 (r4605)
 
 Features:
 
diff -r 41ea7d838c82 -r 53e438d1ca19 setup.py
--- a/setup.py	Fri May 13 07:56:45 2011 +0000
+++ b/setup.py	Fri May 13 09:15:46 2011 +0000
@@ -94,9 +94,15 @@
     # perform the setup action
     from roundup import __version__
 
+    # long_description may not contain non-ascii characters. Distutils
+    # will produce an non-installable installer on linux *and* we can't
+    # run the bdist_wininst on Linux if there are non-ascii characters
+    # because the distutils installer will try to use the mbcs codec
+    # which isn't available on non-windows platforms. See also
+    # http://bugs.python.org/issue10945
     long_description=open('doc/announcement.txt').read().decode('utf8')
     try:
-        long_description.encode('ascii')
+        long_description = long_description.encode('ascii')
     except UnicodeEncodeError, cause:
         print >> sys.stderr, "doc/announcement.txt contains non-ascii: %s" \
             % cause