[issue8668] Packaging: add a 'develop' command
Peter Waller
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jun 16 16:43:30 CEST 2011
Peter Waller <peter.waller at gmail.com> added the comment:
Hi - Great to see this functionality coming. There is one feature of it that I would really like to see fixed, which is currently broken in setuptools/distribute - I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum for this note, but I wanted to add it to the discussion somewhere.
That feature is the "package_dir" argument to setup(). If the sources aren't in the root directory, the package doesn't function correctly with `python setup.py develop`
Here is a reference to an issue filed against distribute:
https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/177/setuppy-develop-doesnt-support-package_dir-arg-to
Is there any possibility of seeing this work correctly? A lot of packages use it, and for them, `develop` is currently broken.
Apologies if this feature is implemented and I missed it, but I see no reference to "package_dir" in the patch, so I would be (pleasantly) surprised if it was implemented. I would be happy to provide a testcase on request.
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