[Distutils] main script problem

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:43 AM 11/12/2006 -0200, Flavio Codeco Coelho wrote:
>Hi,
>
>  I am having a problem with the fact that setuptools copies the
>application main script to a different directory during installation.
>
>My application is a single package one where the mains script resides
>within the package. This script imports many of the other modules
>locally (i.e., import x, y, z)  without having to refer to the package.
>So when the script is copied to /usr/bin, it no longer runs because it
>cannot import the other modules  since they do not reside in the same
>diretory anymore.
>
>This would be a non-issue if setuptools made a simbolic link of the
>script to /usr/bin instead of copying it. Is there a way of forcing this?
>
>any other suggestions are welcome,

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation