[Distutils] subclassing commands in extensions

[Philip Jenvey]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:01 PM, chris wrote:

> I've subclassed bdist_egg in my setup.py to add an option,
> "--include-docs", 'i'. It works as I expect it to when run from the
> command line while it's in the setup.py.
>
> Since I have a few projects that may use this, I thought I may try to
> put it in an extension. However, now when I run python setup.py
> bdist_egg -i, I get
>
> error: command 'bdist_egg' has no such option 'include_docs'
>
> Is there something extra that needs to be done when putting a
> subclassed command in an extension instead of just a setup.py?

You need to specify a setup_requires='myplugin' kwarg to your setup().

It's described here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#new-and-changed-setup-keywords

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Philip Jenvey