Dec. 5, 2009
2:10 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Andrew Dalke <dalke@dalkescientific.com> wrote:
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?
The problem of data_files is that its semantics are heavily changed between the different tools (distutils, setuptools, etc...), so covering all cases is difficult. From my experience, creating a new command makes the thing more robust against monkey patching (don't expect too much, though). David