[Distutils] setup('postinstall'='my.py')

[AltSheets Dev]

Thanks a lot!

I could get that working!
See setup.py lines 13 and 69 in
https://github.com/altsheets/coinquery/blob/f1759a6dd5cd891f493da343c52e8184b45fc926/setup.py

BUT
my custom install routines are called
when the windows installer binary is CREATED,
not when it is UNPACKED on the target machine.

e.g. this coinquery-0.2.4.win-amd64.exe
https://github.com/altsheets/coinquery/tree/master/debug

when unpacked ... always results in the same UID sz4u0zrqkas3q8s3t0se
you can see that when you type

hello


Any hints?

Thanks.



On 3 February 2016 at 00:00, Robert T. McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> One very simple technique used by some projects like numpy is just to have
> ``setup.py`` write a file into the source tree before calling setup().
>
> example: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py#L338-L339
>
> -Robert
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:48 PM, AltSheets Dev <
> altsheets+mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone on distutils-sig@,
>> this is a first timer, please be gentle to me *g*
>>
>> I am just starting with setuptools,
>> and I just cannot get my idea working:
>>
>> At install time,
>> I'd like to generate a file with a random UID,
>> which will later always be the same.
>>
>> I had hoped for a setup('postinstall'='my.py') or setup('preinstall'=
>> ...) but there isn't one.
>>
>> Then I have been trying with a customized
>> distutils.command.install.install
>> class - but so far with no success.
>>
>> Here is a detailed explanation of my futile attempts:
>> https://github.com/altsheets/coinquery/blob/master/README-setupCustom.md
>>
>> I guess this is be a pretty frequent question?
>>
>> Happy about any hints.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> :-)
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> -Robert
>
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