[Distutils] wheel building help needed

[Evgeny Sazhin]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


I tried this and it did not work. It keeps missing the python files.
The only way it worked and created the expected wheel ( at least the
python files are there from the package and the universal=1 resulted
in correct tag) was when the package dir was directly in the root.

I also noticed another problem that in manifest

include . *.py

doesn't work, neither does the

include *

So my __main__.py now located in the root doesn't get inside the wheel.

So you said PEX is worth checking, huh?...;)

Thanks,
Eugene


>
> 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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