[Distutils] distutils post processing

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:42 AM 11/7/2006 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>I'm trying to extend distutiles to do things like fix permissions etc.
>   have a draft that works but I'm  not sure how to invoke it.  I'm
>running it after setup() but as you would expect it always run on any
>setup operation.  How can I limit when my code run only when it's a
>build command?
>
>I tried following the distutiles extension instructions but it is a bit
>thin.  some pointers would be appreciated.  Thanks for your time.


Subclass the appropriate command class, e.g. 
distuils.command.build_ext.build_ext or whatever, extending the run() 
method to do what you want.  Add it to the 'cmdclass' dictionary in your 
setup() call.