[Distutils] How to eliminate on part of a package?

[Skip Montanaro]

Yeah, splitting client and server packages is on my to-do list. Was
just hoping to keep Python2 users from shooting themselves in the foot
with a server subpackage which wouldn't work.

S

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> frankly, I'd give up n find_packages -- it's not that magic, it's just a
> convenience function so you don't need to hand-specify them.
>
> But in this case, you're doing something weird, so I"d just be explicit.
>
> Though what I'd probably really do is make the client and server completely
> separate packages. After all, you say your users only want the client side
> anyway.
>
> and if the server depends on the client (which I"d hope it doesn't!) then
> you can simply make it a dependency.
>
> -CHB
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > If by "top/server tree" you mean that there are more subpackages under
>> > top.server (not just a server.py file as your diagram shows), then you need
>> > to filter out all of those subpackages as well, e.g.:
>> >
>> >     packages = setuptools.find_packages()
>> >     if sys.version_info.major < 3:
>> >         packages = [
>> >             pkg for pkg in packages
>> >                 if pkg != "top.server" and not
>> > pkg.startswith("top.server.")
>> >         ]
>>
>> Thanks, yes, there is another subpackage within top/server, but I
>> eliminated it as well. I was simplifying for the email. The raw
>> find_packages() output looks like this:
>>
>> ['tests', 'top', 'tests.python', 'top.client', 'top.server',
>> 'top.server.db']
>>
>> I was excising the last two elements from the returned list, so the
>> argument of the packages keyword looked like this:
>>
>> ['tests', 'top', 'tests.python', 'top.client']
>>
>> Does the presence of 'top' in the list imply everything under it will
>> be copied (I do want 'top', as that's the top level package, not just
>> a directory in my repo.)
>>
>> I'll keep messing with it.
>>
>> Skip
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