[Distutils] wheel building help needed

[Daniel Holth]

You are probably just missing the package_dir argument to setup(),
adequately documented at
http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/examples.html

Pass

      package_dir={'': 'src'},

to indicate that the root module starts in 'src'.

MANIFEST.in is needed. It is always a bit awkward to write.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eugene at sazhin.us> wrote:
> 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
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