[Distutils] Package a project

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 Dec 2013 02:01, "Imran M Yousuf" <imran at smitsol.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Those are platform dependent, so the installer generates them at install
time based on the metadata in the wheel.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> 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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