[Distutils] Packaging of files, which aren't in the package root folder

[Lukas Hetzenecker]

Hello,

now I have only one problem left:
If i call my setup.py script with the prefix argument (python setup.py install 
--prefix /home/lukas/tmp/) I can't get this argument in the script file.

distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("prefix") returns '/usr' and 
get_config_var("datarootdir") returns '/usr/share'. Is there any way to 
initialize the variables so that the command line arguments are noticed and 
that the function returns '/home/lukas/tmp/share'?

Lukas

> The layout for the release tarball should be like my development layout,
>  only the installation layout should be different.
> 
> This means: The user downloads a tarball which has the package for his pc
>  (in the pc/ directory), a package for his mobile phone (in the mobile/
>  directory) and the LICENCE, README files (in the root directory).
> Now he wants to install the pc package. Only now the modules of the pc/
> directory are mixed with the README files and copied to the site-packages
> directory.
> 
> So he has the README files in the root directory of his tarball _and_ in
>  the package (site-packages/series60_remote) directory when he installed
>  the script.
> 
> > What you have done will not work as-is because setup.py can be called
> > for doing something else than 'sdist', so you need to run the code
> > only if 'sdist' is called.
> 
> Well, this "mixing" should _not_ happen when sdist is called.