[Distutils] Python module for use in ‘setup.py’ but not to install

[Robert McGibbon]

> If you're just after the ability to say "I want to include this file in
the sdist, but not in the built wheel file or installed distribution" (as I
now believe you are)

I think that you can add the file to the MANIFEST.in file to achieve the
desired behavior.

-Robert

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 January 2015 at 11:59, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
> > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> If you have a build/install time only dependency that you want to
> >> distribute, you *have* to separate it out into a separate component if
> >> you don't want it to also be present at runtime.
> >
> > So, to be clear: if this module is needed during build-time for the
> > distribution but does not have a stable API yet, you're saying it
> > nevertheless needs to go to a repository for download as an independent
> > distribution?
>
> I actually misunderstood your question. If you're just after the
> ability to say "I want to include this file in the sdist, but not in
> the built wheel file or installed distribution" (as I now believe you
> are), then you're in the implementation defined world of the
> significantly underspecified sdist format. I believe setting that up
> actually *is* possible already, but have no idea what incantation
> you'll need to pass to setuptools to make it do it (and the docs are
> unlikely to be a reliable guide).
>
> If you'd like to volunteer for the task of reverse engineering and
> properly documenting how sdists work (with regression tests!), that
> would be quite awesome. Not necessarily *fun* from your point of view,
> but definitely awesome from my point of view :)
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> --
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