[Distutils] Distutils ignoring INSTALL_SCHEMES (or: How to put data files in PURELIB)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:01 PM 10/2/2007 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote:
>Hello there. I'm currently trying to package python bindings for a
>library. The bindings are currently compiled in an obscure way, so I end
>up with the following
>
>libmylib\__init__.py
>libmylib\mylib.pyd
>libmylib\dep.dll
>mylib.py
>
>Where mylib.py is the SWIG interface for mylib.pyd.
>
>Since I cannot have distutils compile the bindings at all, I'd like to
>just install the pyd and dll as "data files" along with the .py in
>"site-packages". That can be accomplished with the following:
>
>for scheme in INSTALL_SCHEMES.values():
>     scheme['data'] = scheme['purelib']

Don't do this.  If you are using Python 2.4 or above, use this option 
in setup():

setup(
     package_data = {'mylib': ['mylib.pyd', 'dep.dll']},
     ...
)