At 06:16 PM 7/3/2007 +0400, Timur Izhbulatov wrote:
Hi all,
I use Cheetah in my project and want to precompile templates in my project's setup.py. So, I need to have Cheetah installed *before* setup() is called.
Don't do that. setup scripts must *never* perform such actions before setup() is called. What if someone is just running "setup.py --help", after all? NEVER do this. easy_install's sandboxing code will also reject your package as unsafe to run if you attempt something like this.
I'm trying to use setuptools.command.easy_install.main(['Cheetah']) but I can't find any way to update sys.path after that. Is there any 'official' way to do this?
The official way to require that a package is available during setup() execution is viat the 'setup_requires' keyword, similar to the 'install_requires' keyword. If you need the same package in both situations, you must list it in both keywords. To actually do the precompile, you should subclass the install_data or install_lib command, and override its run() method to do the compilation, as well as doing whatever it did before. You use the 'cmdclass' keyword to setup() to pass in a dictionary mapping command names to your subclass(es). Your subclasses *must* honor the options they are given, and not attempt to install anything except where they are told. The options will be available as attributes of the instance created by the distutils. (Oh, and speaking of the distutils, the correct place for discussion/support of setuptools is the distutils-SIG. Please direct future correspondence there. Thanks.)