[Distutils] How do you get data_files and bdist_wininst to cooperate?

[Jason Sibre]

Hi folks,

I'm very new to this list and to distutils (this is my first stab at using
it), so don't be afraid to point out the obvious...

I'm trying to make a setup.py that will work on Linux and Win32, and be able
to produce sdists and bdists for both platforms (I understand that I should
use the targeted platform to build the bdist).

The package I'm trying to distribute is actually a Quixote application,
which (for those unfamiliar with Quixote) means it's a web application.  I'd
like to install it as a package in site-packages anyway, because that makes
it easier to run multiple instances of the application (with different
configuration data) on a machine without having multiple copies of it.  As a
web application, it has a few images, and a style.css file to distribute,
and it also has a misc directory in the package (which perhaps shouldn't go
there, but that's the way I'm trying to do it for now...) which includes a
sample *.cgi file, *.conf file, and a python script intended to be run as a
script (rather than imported as a module/package).

I'm using the data_files argument to pass in those files, and I determine
the directory to install to by extrapolating from the value of
distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(), but that doesn't work right when I do
a bdist_wininst (I haven't tried to do an RPM, yet, so I don't know if that
works)...  The files end up in "c:\python23\python23\projectTasks...."
instead of "c:\python23\Lib\site-packages\projectTasks....".

I've figured out a hack to do to the data_files (in code below) to make it
work, but then the sdist doesn't work right, on Linux or Win32.

Is there a way to achieve what I'm attempting, or do I just need to figure
out at run time what the user is trying to do (build a bdist, or run an
sdist), and decide then whether to apply my hack or not?

Thanks,

Jason Sibre


Here's my setup.py file:
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#!/usr/bin/python

import os, os.path
from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
from quixote.qx_distutils import qx_build_py

def getFiles(path):
    fullFiles = []
    files = os.listdir(path)

    for f in files:
        if f == "CVS": continue
        fullFiles.append(os.path.join(path,f))
    return fullFiles

webdir = os.path.join(get_python_lib(),'projectTasks','web')
miscFiles = getFiles('web/misc')
staticFiles = getFiles('web/staticFiles')

#I think this is the 'right' way to do it,
#and creates sdists that play nicely
data_files = [
    (os.path.join(webdir, 'misc'),        miscFiles),
    (os.path.join(webdir, 'staticFiles'), staticFiles),
    ]

#This works (as a hack) to get a win binary to install nicely
#But of course makes a mess if you install from an sdist
#data_files = [
#    ('../PURELIB/projectTasks/web/misc',        miscFiles),
#    ('../PURELIB/projectTasks/web/staticFiles', staticFiles),
#    ]

setup(
    name = 'projectTasks',
    version = "0.1.0",
    description = "Project Task manager app for Quixote framework.",
    author = "Jason Sibre",
    author_email = "jsibre at chironsys.com",
    package_dir = {'projectTasks':'.'},
    packages = ['projectTasks','projectTasks.web'],
    data_files = data_files,
    cmdclass = {'build_py': qx_build_py},
    )