distutils

[Dan Crosta]

David S. wrote:
> Thank you.  This introduces a new problem for me.  I have other scripts that I
> want to install likewise.  But now I have to overwrite setup.py for each install.
> 
> Alternatively, I can create script1setup.py, script2setup.py, etc.  That would
> be fine except that there are other files, ie. MANIFEST.IN and README, that need
> to be there too.  I have not found a way to similarly rename these.  
> 
> Finally, it seems odd that I should have so many XXXsetup.py scripts in my
> package root directory.  

I don't understand -- you can install multiple scripts with a single 
setup.py. Do you want finer-grained control over which are installed by 
a single invocation of setup.py? In that case, you should re-read the 
distutils docs about sub-classing portions of the setup process. The 
documentation for the Python 2.4.2 distribution is more complete than in 
2.3.5.

dsc