[Distutils] How to best install pkg_resources?

[Arve Knudsen]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:39 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> At 07:30 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:22 PM, P.J. Eby <<mailto:pje at telecommunity.com>
>> pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> At 06:30 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>> Argh :( Can you describe some other way of customizing the install command
>> that works better with setuptools?
>>
>>
>> That depends on what you're trying to do; but probably it will involve
>> subclassing the install command rather than simply invoking it.
>>
>> What are you trying to customize, anyway?  There really aren't many
>> user-serviceable parts inside; you'd probably be better off customizing
>> subcommands (like install_lib or some of the build_* commands).
>>
>>
>> I don't have the project in front of me right now, but what I needed to do
>> was to install something non-Python. That is, if the package gets installed
>> under <prefix>/lib, the extra data gets installed under <prefix>/data. The
>> data is part of the project, but not part of the Python package(s).
>>
>
> That's not going to work except in the old-style installation mode.  With a
> setuptools or distribute project, your only places to store data are inside
> the package or in the metadata (e.g. a subdirectory inside .egg-info).
>

I'm aware of that issue, but it doesn't matter in this case, since the data
are really orthogonal to the Python distribution (and the project is
proprietary).

Arve
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