[Distutils] Extending distutils with 3rd party build commands?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

One thing that no one has mentioned in this thread is the "command-packages" 
support I added to distutils for Python 2.4.  I think this supports Bob's use 
case well.

What's needed is to install a Python package containing the new commands 
somewhere on the search path (preferably in .../site-packages).  Then edit 
the Python installations distutils config file (bet you didn't know about 
that!) to include

    [global]
    command-packages=my.pkg

The new commands will be available for all setup.py scripts.

This is a documented feature; you can read more about it at

    http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/dist/node29.html


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>