another distutils question

[Robert Kern]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>>> is there anyway I can, in a setup.py file, set  and internal equivalent 
>>> to the '--install-scripts' commandline option?
>> Please don't. Hard-coding that interferes with the user's decision of where 
>> things should go. Only the user should be making that decision, not the package 
>> author.
> 
>   I understand the concern and if I was making a general purpose 
> package, it would be appropriate to not set the path.  But these are 
> internal commands that shouldn't pollute /usr/bin for a variety of 
> reasons (almost all daemons, friends of daemons and cgi programs).

Okay, if it's just for internal use, then I certainly have no objection. Use a 
setup.cfg file:

   http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html

Specifically, use something like the following section:

[install]
install_scripts=/path/to/scripts/directory

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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