[Distutils] Header installation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> 
> I am trying to distutilsify my Python packages, but I am stuck at an
> almost undocumented point: installation of header files. In fact, the
> Distutils manual only says that it can be done, but not how, and the
> only real-life example that does it seems to be NumPy.
> 
> Here's my situation: I have a distribution called "ScientificPython"
> which contains a Python package "Scientific", which in turn contains
> an extension module for which some header files exist. These files
> are supposed to end up in $prefix/pythonx.y/Scientific, such that
> they can be included as "Scientific/xxx". However, if I do exactly what
> NumPy does, they end up in $prefix/pythonx.y/ScientificPython. The
> only way I found to change the header installation directory is by
> specifying an option during installation, but I want this defined
> in setup.py. Any suggestions?

There is a command install_headers which could be what you are
looking for. If that doesn't work, you could try to use 
the data_files directive for this (I had to subclass it though
to do anything useful...).

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