No, I'm trying to ask, like, why you want that. Presumably you have some end goal in mind that you think this will help accomplish, and I think it would be helpful to know what that is :-).

On May 15, 2017 2:42 PM, "Sylvain Corlay" <sylvain.corlay@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's say that you have an anaconda installation, and you install the latest pyzmq from pypi instead of from the conda recipe.

I would like the vendored libzmq to be placed under `PREFIX/bin` and the headers under `PREFIX/include`, just as if I had either

 - installed zmq with `cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=PREFIX` and `make install`

 - or installed the zeromq from the conda package.

Similarly, for a system-wide install on linux distribution, the same would hold with PREFIX=/usr

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:

What are you trying to accomplish by putting include files into virtualenvs?

On May 15, 2017 10:29 AM, "Sylvain Corlay" <sylvain.corlay@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

When distributing python packages that depend on non-python components, the typical way of doing this with general-purpose package managers (linux distributions, conda) is to place binaries, headers, configuration and other artefacts for these components in their respective natural locations under the installation prefix (e.g. PREFIX/bin/, PREFIX/include/, PREFIX/etc/,  PREFIX/share/).

Now, if I have a python package that depends on such a thing (e.g. pyzmq vs zmq), the pypi wheel for pyzmq will vendor a binary for libzmq as package data.

For the case of the header files, there is the distutils `install_headers` directive, but the target directory is (typically) under PREFIX/include/PythonX.Y, which is probably only a good choices for headers of a C extension linked with this specific python installation.

Would it make sense, when vendoring packages packages that don't depend on the python version in a wheel to use `data_files` instead, and target respectively the `bin`, `include`, `etc` and `share` subdirectories of the prefix?

Specifically, for the headers, one could do

    data_files      = [

        ('include/foobar', [list of the foobar header files])),

    ],

Note: I was just using zmq as an example.

Thanks,

Sylvain

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