At 11:11 AM 12/8/2006 -0600, Jon Nelson wrote:

I'm new to setuptools and I'm hoping to have a few questions answered. I also have some observations that may be useful, but that can come later.

1. why does setuptools bdist_rpm use --single-version-externally-managed?

To avoid the need for .pth files, mainly.

2. is it possible to have setuptools write dependency information not just to requires.txt but also to setup.cfg so that RPM will be aware of the dependencies?

Not really, but you could create a custom egg_info writer that will reconfigure the bdist_rpm command at runtime based on that information. See the setuptools documentation for more about egg-info writers. You'll need some understanding of the distutils command framework to do this effectively.

3. This is more of a distutils question, but, what can be done about the INSTALLED_FILES containing directories that aren't marked with %dir (this causes two problems: /all/ directories end up being created but NOT owned by the RPM, and all files /under/ that directory get included, which means they likely get included *twice* to to also being explicitly included).

Sorry, no clue on that one.