rever release failing on windows with permissions errors

[sbillinge]

The same release runs on a mac computer. Here is the stack dump:

Activity 'version_bump' has already been completed!
activity-start:changelog:starting activity changelog
activity-error:changelog:activity failed with execption:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\simon\Anaconda3\envs\bg\lib\site-packages\rever\activity.xsh", line 62, in __call__
    self.func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\simon\Anaconda3\envs\bg\lib\site-packages\rever\activities\changelog.xsh", line 101, in _func
    merged = self.merge_news(news=news, ignore=ignore)
  File "C:\Users\simon\Anaconda3\envs\bg\lib\site-packages\rever\activities\changelog.xsh", line 115, in merge_news
    with open(fname) as f:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'news\\rever'
rewinding to 0555dd229dcd6dc30400b7e4aedab685b401396d

Any thoughts?

[sbillinge]

@scopatz @CJ-Wright do you have thoughts on this? I can't release my pytentiostat project right now.

[CJ-Wright]

What are the permissions on that file/folder? Can you open it in a regular python session?

[sbillinge]

pycharm can read and write files in both news and in news\rever. Also I can open and read a file in the news\rever directory ok using ipython.

Another question....why is rever writing a rever directory into my news directory? Shouldn't it just be deleting all the rst files in there except the template?

[CJ-Wright]

I think it is trying to read the file not write it

[sbillinge]

python can read the file. But rever created an empty ``/rever`` directory in ``/news/`` when I tried to run the release from my windows machine. @chiahaoliu successfully did a release with the same xsh file from a Linux box, so it seems that something in there is getting confused with the windows OS.

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