[Distutils] build_py support from setuptools
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Jun 15 12:52:23 EDT 2004
At 05:15 PM 6/14/04 -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>On Tuesday 08 June 2004 04:25 pm, I wrote:
> > I'd like to merge the build_py improvements from setuptools into the
> > distutils build_py command. This would add:
> >
> > - an easy way to install additional data files into a package
>
>I've added this (the "package_data" functionality) into the distutils trunk
>(Python 2.4), including documentation.
I just glanced over the checkins; you might want to also mention in the
docs that you can supply a global list of files/globs that apply to all
packages, using an empty string as the key in 'package_data'. This is
handy for distributions that want to install all '*.txt' files or all
'*.xml' files, etc. found in their package directories. Actually, I
suspect that this will be the more common usage.
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