distutils - Is is possible to install without the .py extensions

[Robert Kern]

Jari Aalto wrote:
> * Fri 2008-03-07 Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> gmane.comp.python.general
> * Message-Id: fqt61a$sj5$1 at ger.gmane.org
> 
>>>>>     setup(name='program',
>>> ...
>>>>>           scripts = ['program,py'],
>>>>>       )
>>>>> that the the result is:
>>>>>
>>>>>     /usr/bin/program
>>>>>
>>>>> instead of:
>>>>>
>>>>>     /usr/bin/program.py
>>>> The easiest and best way is to just rename the file in your source tree to 
>>>> "program" and be done with it.
>>> Is there any other way? This is the source package that I would like
>>> to keep intact and just patch the setup.py
>> Not really, no. Why is it so important to only patch the setup.py
>> file and not any others?
> 
> It has to do with generating a diff against the original package. If
> the file is moved:
> 
>     mv file.py file
> 
> prior setup.py run (which, according to answers, would have a change
> to <<scripts = ['program']>>), the problem is the generated diff
> against original sources:
> 
>     + would flag removal of 'file.py'
>     + inclusion of 'file'
> 
> The ideal would be if setup.py could do all the destination install
> "postwork". The generated patch would be clean and only contain
> changes in setup.py.
> 
> But I understand, if distutils does not support stripping the
> extensions during install. It just cacuses exra work for utility
> packagers.

What build system are you using that doesn't let you execute

   cp file.py file

before running the setup.py?

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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