[Distutils] questions on setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:27 PM 4/22/2008 -0600, Michael Hearne wrote:
>I'm creating a software package for in-house consumption, and will be
>using setuptools to create an egg that I can easily install, upgrade,
>etc.
>
>I'm able to answer most of my own questions from trolling through the
>documentation, but I have two that I can't find the answers for:
>
>1) If I depend on packages that are not in PyPI and are not available
>through some other simple means (svn, simple .py, etc.), can I note
>these dependencies in such a way that easy_install will complain if
>they are not present and _stop_ installation?

No.  After all, if the package isn't available in such a way that 
easy_install can install it, then there is also no way for 
easy_install to detect its presence or absence, anyway.


>2) If I already have a "main" script, is it possible to have that
>installed in /usr/local/bin (assuming my install path is "/usr/ 
>local")?  If so, how?  I read this section 
>(http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation 
>) but it doesn't seem to address my issue.

Just use the regular distutils 'scripts' option.