Don't bother to 'mkpath()' the 'dist_dir' -- that's now taken care of

in archive_util.py.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index b2d7a86f1f7fea9a2f8c7cca97cdff6835bc405b..2351ebbe374e4608621a98a0eeecdb4c6e9ed88e 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -442,8 +442,6 @@ class sdist (Command):
 
         self.make_release_tree (base_dir, self.filelist.files)
         archive_files = []              # remember names of files we create
-        if self.dist_dir:
-            self.mkpath(self.dist_dir)
         for fmt in self.formats:
             file = self.make_archive (base_name, fmt, base_dir=base_dir)
             archive_files.append(file)