Distribute Non Library
Thomas Jollans
thomas at jollybox.de
Sun Sep 12 07:50:09 EDT 2010
On Sunday 12 September 2010, it occurred to narke to exclaim:
> My simple tool writing in python get bigger and bigger and I think I'd
> better split my code into several files. But, unlike what in some other
> languages, there is no way to compile these several files into a single
> executable. Before I splitting my simple tool program, I just put it in
> /usr/local/bin and run, very simple. Now I have to consider distribute
> a lot of files in a whole. I know distutils can help, but I feel it is
> a little uncomfortable, since I am not sharing a library, I am not
> sharing any thing. I just want to refactory my code. Is there a better
> solution to my case? Can I simply create a directory in /usr/local/bin
> and put my script and other used files into the directory? Does
> distutils help in this case?
Make it a package (or module), install it with distutils, and create a simple
stub script that you put in /usr/local/bin to load it.
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