[Distutils] test resources with setup tools

[Manlio Perillo]

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P.J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 08:52 PM 4/26/2010 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> However, I would like to put the data in a *sub* project, that is know
>> only to my project setup.  Unfortunately this seems to not be possible.
>>
>> Creating a "public" project for this does not feel right, to me.
> 
> In that case, why not just ship the data with the source distribution?
> 

Because the shell script will download about 24 MB, of images and fonts!
And the data is used only by the test suite.

> 
>> Supposing that in the other PyPI project I still want to use a shell
>> script to download and process the data, is it correct to execute the
>> script in the setup.py script, before the setup function is called?
> 
> No.  Otherwise, this code will run even if somebody tries to do setup.py
> --help or build, say, a source distribution.  The only safe way to
> extend a setup script's behavior is by subclassing distutils commnads to
> perform the actions.
> 

Ok.

> 
>> Since the shell script depends on some executables to be available on
>> the system (wget, tar, bzip2, imagemagick), is there a standard method
>> to check for existence of system executables in the setup?
> 
> Distutils has some functions for this sort of thing; I think they're in
> distutils.util.
> 
> 


Thanks  Manlio
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