The weirdness was that DIR_LIB was used as base name and as source for the `make_archive` call at the same time; now we all know that it worked (and can work)... however, the change in https://github.com/mdxs/gae-init/commit/91102841296b5b92f3b19043754146f0d50a4801 makes it explicit (PEP 20 #2)