[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Sun Feb 12 03:46:33 CET 2006
On Feb 11, 2006, at 6:12 PM, has wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>>> Totally off-topic, but if you'd move to setuptools you can keep
>>>> several separate packages, but users could install using
>>>> 'easy_install appscript' which would then take care of the
>>>> dependencies for you.
>>>
>>> I think setuptools is going to be a great solution and definitely
>>> plan to more there eventually. For now though, the mpkg-based
>>> distribution
>>
>> They're not mutually exclusive. Do both. Just don't use
>> pkg_resources or entry points yet.
>
> Since that's more work for me, what benefit would setuptools
> distros provide over the point-n-click package installer, which is
> already very simple and works for anyone?
The major benefit is that people who develop setuptools-based
applications can say (in their setup.py):
install_requires=['appscript']
And then if someone does this:
easy_install app_requiring_appscript
Then it will Just Work. If you have binary eggs up, they don't even
need a compiler to be installed.
The work involved in supporting setuptools one or two lines per
setup.py, so you really shouldn't even have to ask what the benefits
are.. it's trivial.
- from distutils.core import setup
+ from setuptools import setup
setup(...
+ install_requires=['other', 'components', 'that', 'are', 'needed'],
)
On top of that, you'll have to register your modules on Cheese Shop
in order for this to be useful, but you should be doing that anyway.
This is also trivial.
# register on cheese shop, build an egg and source distribution, sign
it all with GPG, and upload to cheese shop
python setup.py register bdist_egg sdist upload -s
And if you don't have setuptools installed already.. well, that's
trivial too:
python -c "import urllib; urllib.main()" \
http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py \
| sudo python - -U setuptools
-bob
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