Hi Philip, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:16 PM 5/3/2006 +1000, John Pye wrote: > >> Is there a way I can use distutils to package up a binary distribution >> of a SWIG module that has already been created with another build tool? >> >> In particular, I have a .dll/.so file and a .py file, and they just need >> to be dropped in the right place, and I want to use the distutils >> 'bdist_rpm' / exe builder to then create a distributable. > > > If the binary module is inside a package, you can treat it as package > data. I'm concerned that if I treat it as package data, it won't get put in the right place in all cases. > > Alternately, you could try subclassing > distutils.command.build_ext.build_ext so that it runs your other build > tool, and adding that to your custom commands dictionary in setup(). That's an interesting idea -- have you heard of anyone doing this with SCons? Cheers JP _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
