On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Tim Cuthbertson
Cheers, will look into it. Is there a canonical list of what possible directories, or should I just look at the --help output?
The latter. Am I going to run into trouble where some projects have different
options? For example, calling `python setup.py` could be implemented by distutils, setuptools, distribute, and god knows what else.
I can't speak for "what else", but the first three tools you mention support the same installation directory options for setup.py. (Except distutils itself doesn't recognize --single-version-externally-managed.) True, although I want a folder, not an archive. I could unpack it, but
the less steps in a build script the better.
Well, if you're willing to use setuptools or distribute, you can do "easy_install -mxNZd tempdir projectdir", where projectdir is a directory with a setup.py. After running this command, tempdir will have a single .egg subdirectory added to it, containing a version of the library with a known directory layout. You can then do something like: cd tempdir mv *.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts bin mv *.egg lib To get your desired layout. For bonus points, you can rename the EGG-INFO/ subdirectory to packagename.egg-info/. ;-)