[Distutils] Package a project

[Imran M Yousuf]

Thanks for the suggestion Paul. Wheel structures exactly as I want it
to be, but I see it does not generate the entry point scripts; any
idea how to get them to work?

Thank you,

Imran

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 December 2013 07:53, Imran M Yousuf <imran at smitsol.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to setuptools. I am using it to build and package a project
>> of mine. Currently if I execute `python setup.py bdist` it generates a
>> tarball with all files located in paths
>> './abs/path/to/project/bin/[entry points]' and
>> './abs/path/to/project/lib/python-2.7/site-packages/[rest of the
>> sources]'. This does not seem to be logical :(, I would rather want
>> the binary distribution to be structure -
>> './project-name/bin/' and './project-name/lib/'.
>>
>> Can some please advise me how to achieve it? I am using VirtualEnv for
>> development of this project and its setup.py looks like -
>>
>> from setuptools import setup, find_packages
>>
>> setup(name='project-name',
>>       version='1.0',
>>       description='Description',
>>       author='Imran M Yousuf',
>>       author_email='imran at smitsol.com',
>>       url='http://www.smitsol.com',
>>       install_requires = ['setuptools', 'pycrypto==2.6'],
>>       packages=find_packages('src', ["tests"]),
>>           package_dir={'': 'src'},
>>           test_suite="tests",
>>       entry_points={
>>           'console_scripts': ['manager=client.manager:main']
>>       }
>>      )
>
> Install the wheel project and use bdist_wheel instead of a simple
> bdist. Also, use the sdist (source distribution) command to create a
> source package (that needs a compiler to build). Binary packages are
> only compatible with the platform/Python version they are built on, so
> you may want to make multiple wheels, depending on what platforms you
> are targeting.
>
> From what you provide, I'm not 100% sure if you have C code in your
> project, actually. If you don't, then a sdist is sufficient - although
> a wheel might be worth uploading as well (pure Python wheels are
> cross-platform).
>
> The plain bdist command produces a "dumb" binary distribution, which
> is obsolete, and frankly useless.
> Paul



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