[Distutils] wheel building help needed

[Evgeny Sazhin]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 February 2014 22:20, Evgeny Sazhin <eugene at sazhin.us> wrote:
>> 1. No python files added, neither __main__.py nor prog.py make it to
>> the wheel, so includes are not working
>
> The manifest is for sdists, not wheels. So includes won't "work" in
> the sense that you seem to be expecting. You need to specify your
> package details in setup.py - you don't say if you did. I suspect
> you're not getting a universal wheel because it looks like it isn't
> pure Python - maybe because it doesn't have the right files in it, I
> can't tell from what you're showing.

I got rid of the wheel folder as the machinery behind the wheel
building (or between keyboard and chair) is not smart enough to
understand how to work with packages that are one level down from the
root.

my setup.py is :

setup(
name="prog",
version="0.1",
#etc,
packages=find_packages()

)

I got the wheel properly built using python setup.py bdist_wheel (i
was able to do it before, but didn't realize the manifest stuff is for
that way of building, not for the pip wheel). So "pip wheel" usage
remains to be unclear...

>
> You still seem to be making wheels with the intention that they are
> executable. I apologise if I'm reading too much into your directory
> structure, but if that's what you are trying to do I can well imagine
> that you'll get odd results as you're trying to do something the
> system wasn't designed for.
>
> Paul

Yes, not only i'm making wheel executable, but i also will most
probably build around the fact that it is zip-readable and therefore I
will add them to the PYTHONPATH to run, just like java classpath and
jar (I know - stubborn me) - that's the only thing that makes any
sense! After all those arguments about C extensions and whatnot i
still think that enforcing the unzipping and deploying stuff is not
what packaging should provide as a solution.
Plus as you see I'm trying to build universal wheel - pure python.
Nobody so far could prove or at least explain why it is bad idea *for
pure python*, so I think this is the way to go.


Thanks,
Eugene