Met Problem with Distutils

[Robert Kern]

steven at lczmsoft.com wrote:
> if i want a main executable py script installed on the /usr/local/bin,
> what do i do?  i tried the data_files options in the setup.py, but
> nothing happened, no the expected file appeared in the resulted tarbar.

Generally speaking, you, the author, shouldn't dictate to the user 
exactly where to install stuff to. There are reasons to break this rule, 
but installing exectuable scripts is too common to be one of them.

The way for the user to install scripts to the location of their choice 
is given here:

   http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html

In short, use the --install-scripts command-line option, or the 
setup.cfg/.pydistutils.cfg snippet:

   [install]
   install_scripts=...

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Robert Kern
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