another distutils question

[Eric S. Johansson]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> 
>> Now I get to puzzle out how to install the CGI plus images plus 
>> stylesheets plus plus plus mess.  Probably a bit outside of the scope of 
>> distutils even if the CGI programs are Python.  ;-)
> 
> I recommend installing the data inside the package itself. In 2.4, use the 
> package_data keyword in setup().
> 
>    http://docs.python.org/dist/node12.html

2.4 is good.  Eventually I will upgrade to eggs but I'm making enough 
changes right now to make me crazy.

maybe I am over thinking this problem.  I needed a CGI scripts to go to 
a predictable place so I can build the wrappers.  For all I care, that 
could be another Python module in the site-packages hierarchy (assuming 
they are executable).  But I have separate targets for the images etc.. 
  The reason being that I organize my sites as 
/var/www/{html,data,images)/<site>.  Don't ask.

So what I have seen so far says that to be able to take data from a 
series of directories scatter it to other directories may be out of 
scope.  It's okay.  If I have to write a wrapper, it won't be the first 
time.

--- eric