distutils directory problem

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 18, 3:31 pm, Martin Manns <mma... at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with the distutils package:
> (I have now spent hours reading and searching the manuals and tutorials,
> and I am still stuck.)
>
> I have a working directory
> ~/pyspread
> in which my libraries are situated and two icons directories
> ~/pyspread/icons and ~/pyspread/icons/actions
>
> Now I would like to create a setup.py file inside my ~/pyspread
> directory that installs my .py modules in .../site-packages/pyspread
> and the icons in appropriate sub-folders and adds pyspread.pth to
> .../site-packages so that .../site-packages/pyspread is in the
> PYTHONPATH.
>
> However, my setup.py puts everything  (including .pyc files) into
> site-packages *and* into the sub-folders. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I am looking for a platform-independent solution. Currently, I am using
> python 2.5 on Linux.
>
> Here my setup.py
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> from distutils.core import setup
> setup(name='pyspread',
>       version='0.0.7',
>       description='A spreadsheet that accepts a pure python expression in each cell.',
>       license='GPL v3 :: GNU General Public License',
>       classifiers=[ 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
>                     'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
>       ],
>       author='Martin Manns',
>       author_email='mma... at gmx.net',
>       url='http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyspread/',
>       packages=['pyspread'],
>       package_dir={'pyspread': '.'},
>       scripts=['pyspread.py'],
>       py_modules=['pyspread.mainapp', 'pyspread.pysgrid', 'pyspread.mygrid','pyspread.icontheme'],
>       package_data={'pyspread': ['icons/*.png', 'icons/actions/*.png' ,\
>                                  'test.pys', 'test.csv', 'test2.csv', \
>                                  'README', 'COPYING']},
> )
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Martin

I highly recommend re-posting this to the distutils group. They have
some excellent people over there that can probably tell you quite
quickly what the issue is:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Mike