[Twisted-Python] distutils and twisted
Hi,
What's the prefered way to use distutils to package a twisted plugin. The key question being, how do you install the plugins.tml file ? Is there any distutils extensions available ?
Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
What's the prefered way to use distutils to package a twisted plugin. The key question being, how do you install the plugins.tml file ? Is there any distutils extensions available ?
At last, a question I can answer! (I'm a Twisted application developer, not a Twisted guru ... :^)
Put your plugins.tml into the top dir of your application, e.g.:
myapp/__init__.py /plugins.tml <--- /myapptap.py /myappmodule1/... /myappmodule2/...
... and make sure that myapp is in your PYTHONPATH. Then if your plugins.tml looks something like this:
------------------------------------------------- register("Myapp Tap Builder", "myapp.myapptap", description="""My Application""", type="tap", tapname="myapp") -------------------------------------------------
... then mktap will create a myapp.tap file in the dir where you run it.
For your setup.py, something like this should work (note data_files ... :^):
------------------------------------------------- from distutils.core import setup
setup (name = "My Application", version = "0.0", description = "Blah blah", author = "Moi", author_email = "moi@world", maintainer = "admin", maintainer_email = 'admin@here', url = "http://spam.world/eggs", licence = "MIT", long_description = """\ My application does NOT suck!""", packages = ['myapp', 'myapp.myappmodule1', 'myapp.myappmodule2' ], data_files = [('lib/python2.2/site-packages/myapp', ['myapp/plugins.tml']) ] ) -------------------------------------------------
HTH, -- Steve.
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:21:47 -0500 Steve Waterbury waterbug@beeblebrox.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
data_files = [('lib/python2.2/site-packages/myapp', ['myapp/plugins.tml']) ]
Twisted's setup.py uses a different, more cross-platform/python-version hack to make sure plugins.tml is installed, with the unfortunate side-effect that you can't install normal data files.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:39:42AM -0500, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:21:47 -0500 Steve Waterbury waterbug@beeblebrox.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
data_files = [('lib/python2.2/site-packages/myapp', ['myapp/plugins.tml']) ]Twisted's setup.py uses a different, more cross-platform/python-version hack to make sure plugins.tml is installed, with the unfortunate side-effect that you can't install normal data files.
This is indeed unfortunate, since I need to install datafiles too...
Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:39:42AM -0500, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:21:47 -0500 Steve Waterbury waterbug@beeblebrox.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
data_files = [('lib/python2.2/site-packages/myapp', ['myapp/plugins.tml']) ]Twisted's setup.py uses a different, more cross-platform/python-version hack to make sure plugins.tml is installed, with the unfortunate side-effect that you can't install normal data files.
This is indeed unfortunate, since I need to install datafiles too...
... but you don't need to install your Twisted app at the same time as Twisted ... in fact, we prefer not to. Time to learn distutils. ;^)
-- Steve.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:08:22PM -0500, Steve Waterbury wrote:
Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
This is indeed unfortunate, since I need to install datafiles too...
... but you don't need to install your Twisted app at the same time as Twisted ... in fact, we prefer not to. Time to learn distutils. ;^)
I was thinking of cutnpasting the trick you were using to my setup.py, not installing everything at the same time. IMNSHO, having a module twisted.python.distutils with a custom setup aware of tml files would be a nice thing to have for module developers (and I'm a bit surprised that no such beast exists). I'll hack something, and submit it to the mailing list if I'm happy enough with it.
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:22, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
IMNSHO, having a module twisted.python.distutils with a custom setup aware of tml files would be a nice thing to have for module developers (and I'm a bit surprised that no such beast exists). I'll hack something, and submit it to the mailing list if I'm happy enough with it.
Hooray! You have reached the same conclusion as I did [http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2002-October/001814.html a month ago], only you are willing to go where I did not and write code. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Thanks,
- Kevin
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
IMNSHO, having a module twisted.python.distutils with a custom setup aware of tml files would be a nice thing to have for module developers (and I'm a bit surprised that no such beast exists). I'll hack something, and submit it to the mailing list if I'm happy enough with it.
Well, here's an attempt. The documentation is in the module docstring. Feel free to add it to the twisted distribution if you think it's ok. If you need more features, please ask. If you find bugs, please tell me.
En réponse à Steve Waterbury waterbug@beeblebrox.gsfc.nasa.gov:
For your setup.py, something like this should work (note data_files ... :^):
Nope. It won't work with different versions of python, but this can easily be worked around. What's more a problem is that it won't work on non-unix platforms, and it won't work with the --home option passed to the install command of setup.py, which is what I use to test packages locally (using python setup.py install --home=$HOME will install packages in $HOME/lib/python).
I'm using a similar hack right now for testing, and I'll put up a distutils extension once I get a few other issues with my plugin sorted out.
Alexandre Fayolle -- http://alexandre.fayolle.free.fr http://www.logilab.org Narval is the first software agent available as free software (GPL). LOGILAB, Paris (France).
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