[Distutils] Derivative files

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:22 PM 4/22/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>At 06:11 PM 4/20/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>>>I made a distutils command to take the Javascript files in an
>>>application and put them together and compress them.  I'd like the
>>>result to kind of always be there; it would be distributed with the egg
>>>for instance.  But I don't really want it in source control.  So I think
>>>I need to make this part of the build somehow.  What should I look for
>>>to do that?
>>A couple of options:
>>* Add it to MANIFEST.in, in which case it will be put in source 
>>distributions as well as the eggs, assuming it's in a package 
>>subdirectory and include_package_data is True
>>* list it explicitly in package_data
>
>Is there a good way to ensure the files are created if necessary?  I.e., 
>if someone checks out the code (without these files) and runs setup.py 
>install or develop, to make sure the compressing command is run?

You can subclass one of the build_* or install_* commands that would 
ordinarily be run.