[Distutils] setuptools data_files and bdist_egg
Alain Leufroy
alain.leufroy at logilab.fr
Thu Mar 18 15:47:06 CET 2010
I'm a setuptools user and I appreciate it a lot, particularly for the
automatic dependency installation and eggs.
I found over the web that one of egg features is that files shouldn't be
strewn all over the disk. However is there a way to put files outside the egg
install directory (e.g. /usr/share/doc) ?
The data_file list given as an argument to the setup method allows to specify
where data files should be installed. But when I try to install a
distribution using easy_install with an .egg file, all data files are copied
in the egg install directory. This means that the prefix for relative path
specified in the data_file list is the egg install directory instead of
<sys.prefix>.
Is there a way to force easy_install to use <sys.prefix> as the prefix for
relative data file paths ?
Best regards
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Alain Leufroy
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