At 11:11 AM 12/8/2006 -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: >I'm new to setuptools and I'm hoping to have a few questions answered. I >also have some observations that may be useful, but that can come later. > >1. why does setuptools bdist_rpm use > --single-version-externally-managed?
To avoid the need for .pth files, mainly. >2. is it possible to have setuptools write dependency information not >just to requires.txt but also to setup.cfg so that RPM will be aware of >the dependencies? Not really, but you could create a custom egg_info writer that will reconfigure the bdist_rpm command at runtime based on that information. See the setuptools documentation for more about egg-info writers. You'll need some understanding of the distutils command framework to do this effectively. >3. This is more of a distutils question, but, what can be done about the >INSTALLED_FILES containing directories that aren't marked with %dir >(this causes two problems: /all/ directories end up being created but >NOT owned by the RPM, and all files /under/ that directory get included, >which means they likely get included *twice* to to also being explicitly >included). Sorry, no clue on that one. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
