New submission from Stefan Seefeld <stefan@seefeld.name>: I'm working on a project that I'd like to split into multiple separately installable components. The main component is a command-line tool without any external dependencies. Another component is a GUI frontend that adds some third-party dependencies. Therefore, I'd like to distribute the code in a single source package, but separate binary packages (so users can install only what they actually need). I couldn't find any obvious way to support such a scenario with either `distutils` nor `setuptools`. Is there an easy solution to this ? (I'm currently thinking of adding two `setup()` calls to my `setup.py` script. That would then call all commands twice, so I'd need to override the `sdist` command to only build a single (joint) source package. Is there a better way to achieve what I want ? ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Distutils, Documentation messages: 334381 nosy: docs@python, dstufft, eric.araujo, stefan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: building multiple (binary) packages from a single project type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35830> _______________________________________