Easy install / setuptools

[Dominique.Holzwarth at ch.delarue.com]

Hi everyone

I'm trying to figure out the "best" way to distribute my own python packages. Basicly, what I want is to have something like an "installer.exe" (on windows) which puts my package under Python/Lib/site-packages (so that it can be found via the PYTHONPATH).

I've played around a bit with "easy install" and "setuptools" and the .egg format. I've already managed to create a "myPackage.egg" file with setup tools and "install" (it's just a copying) it ito the site-packages directory using "easy install".

What I was wondering now is if there's a way to actually EXTRACT the egg file and put the extracted file (i.e. the .py file) under site-packages. And not the .egg?

The problem with egg files is that you can't use "open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'myFile')" and I'd need to rewrite such code which I'd like to avoid if possible. Also, I don't know whether leaving the python scripts packed inside the egg file is slower for execution or not...

Would be cool if someone could give me some inputs on how to distribute python packages in an easy and effective way :-)

Thx in advance
Dominique


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