Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Python 2.7 Distutils extra features

On 05:30 pm, ziade.tarek@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Tarek Ziad� wrote:

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Hello,

Besides the PEP-related features, I would like to add some tiny features in Distutils for Python 2.7 before the alpha stage is over :

- a test command, that just uses the new unittest discovery to run unittest-compatible tests.

- a new option for sdist called 'extra_files', that will allow to list extra files to be included in the distribution. these �files will not be installed by 'install', just be part of the distribution.

Ooops forgot the third one, (which might lead to further discussions):

- a very basic pre/post commit hook for the install command.

Being able to run some code after install is done would certainly be useful. A couple things I wonder about... Can the packages that were just installed be imported in the post hook? What kind of interaction would this have with the bdist installers? It'd be a shame of things like bdist_rpm suffered when packages took advantage of these hooks. Jean-Paul