[SciPy-Dev] nested setup.py scripts

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Moritz Beber <moritz.beber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I want to generate a package with a submodule structure similar to what
> numpy and scipy use. (Or do you recommend not doing that?)
>

It's a pretty standard layout for a Python package (assuming it's large in
size and has some compiled code in it that actually needs multiple
setup.py's), it's fine to copy this structure.


> I have read the following pieces of documentation but I'm still unclear
> about how the main setup.py script discovers the nested scripts and gets
> the configuration values from those. Is this documented somewhere or can
> anyone point me to how this is done?
>

In the main setup.py you'll see:

    config.add_subpackage('scipy')

And in scipy/setup.py

    config.add_subpackage('cluster')
    config.add_subpackage('constants')
    config.add_subpackage('fftpack')
    ...<etc>

Cheers,
Ralf


> Thank you in advance,
> Moritz
>
> P.S.: What I've read:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/DISTUTILS.rst.txt
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-dev/reference/hacking.html
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/api.html
>
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