[Distutils] Did I miss setup of distutils cookbook location?

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri Apr 30 11:12:01 EDT 2004


René Liebscher <R.Liebscher at gmx.de> writes:

> Mike C. Fletcher schrieb:
>> We'd discussed at PyCon having a distutils recipe collection; having
>> just donated a cooked setup.py to another project I'm thinking it
>> might be nice to instead upload such things for general consumption.
>> Quick survey of PyOpenGL and one or two other projects in my stable
>> gives:
>>    * Pete Shinner's "smart_install_data" (keeps resource files in the
>>      same directory relative to the original source, as 99% of projects
>>      I'm aware of really want (i.e. specifying --install-lib doesn't
>>      scatter your projects into two different locations)).

There is also a clever hack which has been posted to c.l.p:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=f70e3538.0404141327.6cea58ca%40posting.google.com>

I haven't tried it though.

Thomas




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