[Distutils] Help to create a setup.py (subdirectories aren't working)

[John Posner]

On 3/25/2010 7:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

I'm a packaging newbie, but a long-time Python hobbyist programmer and a 
longer-time tech writer. I'm planning to help with the cleanup of the 
Hitchhiker's Guide.

>
>>> 1. Omit the package_dir option altogether
>>> 2. set packages = ['MyProject', 'MyProject.output', 'MyProject.modules']
>>> 3. Add an __init__.py in the MyProject directory, to make it the parent
>>> package
>>>
>>>        

All of the above works for me, and now I'm proceeding to include PNG 
image files in my project. Here's the project's directory structure:

   setup.py

   hibye
   hibye\__init__.py
   hibye\goodbye.py
   hibye\hello.py
   hibye\png
   hibye\png\left_arrow.png
   hibye\png\right_arrow.png

   hibye\french
   hibye\french\__init__.py
   hibye\french\aurevoir.py
   hibye\french\bonjour.py
   hibye\french\french.jpg


And here's my setup.py:

   from setuptools import setup
   ###from distutils.core import setup
   ###import distribute_setup; distribute_setup.use_setuptools()

   setup(name = "hibye",
         version = "6.7",
         packages = ["hibye", "hibye.french"],
         package_data = {
             "hibye": ['png/left_arrow.png', 'png/right_arrow.png'],
             "hibye.french": ['french.jpg'],
         },
   )

With this setup, it seems that "python setup.py bdist_egg" includes the 
PNG files in the distribution, but "python setup.py sdist" does not. I 
need to include a MANIFEST file to have the PNG files included in a 
source distribution. Is that the correct functionality? If so, why the 
difference?

Note: I'm doing my testing inside a virtualenv, on Win/XP SP3.

Tx,
John