[Distutils] setuptools and additional scripts handling

[Manlio Perillo]

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P.J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 04:37 PM 2/16/2010 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
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>> P.J. Eby ha scritto:
>> > At 02:23 PM 2/16/2010 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> >> Is it possible to declare a custom directory where some of the scripts
>> >> needs to be installed?
>> >
>> > No.  However, you can always create a script whose job is to symlink
>> > your other scripts to the appropriate cron directory, and ask your
>> users
>> > to run it after installation.
>> >
>>
>> Can't this be done inside setup.py?
> 
> You could make a setup command, or customize the "install" command, but
> neither of these things would affect easy_install or pip.
> 
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> (Heck, if what you've got is a singleton application of some sort, you
> could potentially just have it check at startup that the cron scripts
> are symlinked, and let the user know about the problem.)
> 

You are right, this is a singleton web application!
So, it will not be installed using pip or easy_install.

I have to decide if it is best to "abuse" setuptools plugin support, in
order to install system services (cron scripts, init.d script) or if it
is better to provide a separate script, as you suggested.

And, no, it is not that easy to do checks at startup, since it is a WSGI
application embedded in Nginx (and when I'm on my PC or testing server,
the cron scripts are not required).


Thanks  Manlio

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