On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:46 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:
If you think this is insane, you are not alone :)
I think that by hooking into "data_files" I can be a bit less insane. What's wrong with this? Other than that it writes Writing /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Spam_services-0.0.0-py2.6.egg-info which isn't needed when there is no other Python code. But I can special case that and bypass the setup mechanism entirely if there are no py_modules, packages, or ext_modules given. (Am I missing something?) from distutils.core import setup def my_setup(**kwargs): if "akara_extensions" in kwargs: akara_extensions = kwargs["akara_extensions"] if not isinstance(akara_extensions, list): raise TypeError("akara_extensions must be a list of filenames") del kwargs["akara_extensions"] if "data_files" not in kwargs: kwargs["data_files"] = [] data_files = kwargs["data_files"] data_files.append( ("/tmp", akara_extensions) ) setup(**kwargs) my_setup(name="Spam services", #packages=["my_spam"], akara_extensions = ["spam_extensions.py"], ) Andrew dalke@dalkescientific.com