Rene Liebscher wrote:

Michel Van den Bergh wrote:

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Hello,

After the extremely useful replies I got to my last question here is another one!

Is is possible to set defaults for command line options in setup.py?

I would like to put in some PLATFORM-SPECIFIC defaults. E.g, choice of compiler, installation directory.

The limited format of config.cfg does not seem to allow this.

You probably have to overwrite the Distribution class. (you can find it in distutils/dist.py)

You could set your options right in self.__init__() or so, see also self.command_options and self.parse_config_files().

See also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/1999-January/000143.html You have write then your setup like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ from distutils.core import Distribution, setup

class MyDistribution (Distribution): def __init__(self): Distribution.__init__(self) # put your initialization here

setup (distclass = MyDistribution) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

BTW, I have never extended the Distribution class, so I can't guarantee it is correct.

Kind regards Rene Liebscher

Thanks, Using your idea I could inspect the mechanics of distutils a little better. Then I found out that setup has an option 'options' (undocumented as far as I can tell) which allows you to give default values for options. So it is actually pretty easy. It think it would be better to have config files of the form : setup_osname. This would be more transparent. Regards, Michel