distutils: "build" command

[andrew cooke]

don't know if this is useful, but setuptools is a plug-in replacement for
distutils that makes this kind of thing easier (i think).

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

andrew


TP wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have programmed a python package, and I would like to use distutils with
> it. My package has the following structure after doing sdist and build:
>
> $ python setup.py sdist
> [...]
> $ python setup.py build
> [...]
> $ tree
> .
> |-- MANIFEST
> |-- MANIFEST.in
> |-- README
> |-- build
> |   `-- lib
> |       `-- utils
> |           |-- __init__.py
> |           `-- __init__.pyc
> |-- dist
> |   `-- utils-1.0.tar.gz
> |-- utils
> |   |-- __init__.py
> |   |-- __init__.pyc
> |   |-- utils_1
> |   |   |-- __init__.py
> |   |   |-- __init__.pyc
> |   |   `-- toto.py
> |   `-- utils2
> |       |-- __init__.py
> |       `-- foo.py
> `-- setup.py
>
> So, in the "build" directory, I do not get all the the modules ("utils1"
> and "utils2" directory), but only the first level of the package (files
> under "utils" directory). Whereas all the files are included in the
> utils-1.0.tar.gz archive made with "sdist".
> How to modify setup.py and/or MANIFEST.in to include all the
> subdirectories
> in the "build" directory when doing "setup.py build"? I have googled a bit
> without finding anything.
> These are my MANIFEST.in and setup.py files:
>
> $ cat MANIFEST.in
> include README
> recursive-include utils *.py
>
> $ cat setup.py
> from distutils.core import setup
>
> setup( name = 'utils'
>         , version = '1.0'
>         , url = ''
>         , author = ''
>         , author_email = ''
>         , packages = [ 'utils' ] )
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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