[Distutils] Pondering multi-package packages

Greg Ward gward@python.net
Fri, 26 May 2000 22:45:24 -0400


On 26 May 2000, M.-A. Lemburg said:
> Hmm, thinking of it: would distutils allow recursive
> builds/installs ? Or must I add logic to figure out
> which parts of the cake are available to build/install and
> then setup a single setup.py file ?

This is one of those things I've pondered about in the past.  Haven't
ever tried it though.  At a minimum, there would have to be something in
the setup script that says, "these directories are sub-distributions,
please cd into them in turn and run the setup script there".  Presumably
it would run those setup scripts with the same arguments as the current
script.

All speculation, of course...

        Greg
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