On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:15:59 +1100, Chris Miles <miles.chris@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to deploy my Twisted app as a Twisted Application Plugin for twistd as per http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/tap.html
I want to distribute my app as a tarball, so the user would untar it and run "python setup.py install". Then they would run "twistd myapp" to start it.
How do I configure setup.py so that twisted/plugins/myapp.py is created?
Since your app depends on Twisted, the user should already have a directory named "twisted/plugins" in their install directory (probably their system- wide site-packages, but not necessary). Twisted itself creates and installs this directory. Your installer needs to do just two things: put myapp.py into that directory and regenerate the plugin cache. One way in which to accomplish the first thing is like this: Pass a list like ["twisted.plugins"] for the packages keyword argument to distutils setup() Pass a dict like {'twisted': ['plugins/myapp.py']} for the package_data keyword argument to distutils setup() Include a line like "graft twisted" in your MANIFEST.in http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/plugin.html#auto3 gives an example of how to do the second thing. Jean-Paul