On 22 October 2000, James Thompson said:
I hate to bother you personally but the list is screwed and I'm pushing for a new release for our app w/ distutil support today.
Bad luck! Due to the Starship outage, your mail to me sat in limbo for almost a week. Dunno what's up with the Distutils list...
I have an application that is partially modules, a few packages, and a final application or two.
I'd like the application to end up in equiv of autoconfs prefix (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin) and everything else to end up is a gnue directory (or below it in as a package)
site-packages/gnue site-packages/gnue/forms/* site-packages/gnue/misc/*
I've found that distutils (1.0.1) doesn't allow mixing packages, modules in setup.py so I assume this will require me doing every thing as a package.
That's a feature -- it's meant to *encourage* people to put their modules into packages. ;-) But if you still have "legacy" top-level modules, that's OK: just tell the Distutils to process the "root package". Eg. packages = ['', 'gnue', 'gnue.forms', 'gnue.misc'] Every "root package" module found in your source tree will wind up in site-packages, unless you specify a .pth file with the 'extra_path' option.
But I can't find anything on how to get the main app in /usr/local/bin or how to include docs/man pages etc.
For the main app: scripts = ['script'] will copy "script" to /usr/local/bin (or whatever the prefix of the current Python interprerter is), with the #! line fixed to point to the interpreter used for the build. Docs and man pages are not handled, because there is no standard documentation format in the Python world. That's a bug, but not one I can fix single-handedly. ;-( Greg -- Greg Ward gward@python.net