distutils: renaming setup.py ok?

[Benjamin Niemann]

Hello,

Anastasios Hatzis wrote:

> I want to distribute Python site-packages. Is it okay to use other setup
> file names than setup.py, which is mentioned in any place I read in the
> doc?
> 
> E.g., setupMySDK.py, setupMyLib.py
> 
> It seems that it works with distutils at least - but probably doing so
> has side-effects with other tools which may expect exactly "setup.py" as
> file name.

I'd say, it's mostly the user who is expecting "setup.py" as the filename.

Perhaps 'setup.py --install-sdk' and 'setup.py --install-lib' would be more
approriate (which can be done with distutils).

HTH

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