At 06:30 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:

Argh :( Can you describe some other way of customizing the install command that works better with setuptools?

That depends on what you're trying to do; but probably it will involve subclassing the install command rather than simply invoking it.

What are you trying to customize, anyway? There really aren't many user-serviceable parts inside; you'd probably be better off customizing subcommands (like install_lib or some of the build_* commands).

I don't have the project in front of me right now, but what I needed to do was to install something non-Python. That is, if the package gets installed under <prefix>/lib, the extra data gets installed under <prefix>/data. The data is part of the project, but not part of the Python package(s).

Arve