On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:56 pm, Mark Hammond wrote:
I was replying to your original '--strip-extensions' idea, so it would apply to whatever files you had in mind originally <wink>.
Ah; that was specific to scripts. So let's not muck with the plain text files. ;-)
It would seem more general to specify the full target name:
It's not clear how general we want it to be. We basically want platform policy to decide; we want to provide hints.
scripts=[ Script('bin/dostuff.py', platforms="windows"), Script('bin/dostuff.py', target="bin/dostuff", platforms="posix"),
This doesn't handle a "default" platform though (ie, what would OSX do given the above?) Maybe we need "exclude_platforms" and "include_platforms"?
Something like that; perhaps "platforms" and "except_platforms".
It is a real shame that setup.py has no foolproof access to the options (such as the target platform) - then we could punt the problem right back into setup.py - have it provide a different script list, possibly with explicit target names, depending on the platform.
That's exactly what I *don't* want. I want to be doing nothing conditional in the setup.py, since I really want to replace it all with metadata stored somewhere else, and have a minimum of code needed to load that metadata and pass it to distutils.core.setup().
I'm wondering how close we are getting to YAGNI though.
We're not there yet, I don't think. Other than support for sbin directories, I want all this for Zope 3. Support for installing scripts in $prefix/sbin has been requested on the list, and there's an RFE on SourceForge. I don't think it's unreasonable. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>