I'm trying to use distutils for the first time to package up a project, and struggling a bit; I wonder whether some kind soul could point me in the right direction.
I'm packaging a pure Python project that uses ctypes. The only complication is that I'd like the setup script to install a configuration file alongside the various .py files. From the documentation, this sounds like something that would usually be specified with 'package_data' or 'data_files'. The catch is that parts of the configuration file are generated at setup time: that is, the setup script gathers various pieces of system information (e.g., library locations) and uses those to transform a hard-coded 'config.in' file into the 'config' file that I want to install. I could just generate the 'config' file in the top-level package directory, but it seems dangerous to assume that that directory is writable; it seems better to use one of the build directories that distutils already knows about. What's the best way to manage generation and installation of the config file? I've got as far as subclassing the build command and making __run__ create the config file from the config.in file, putting it into the build_temp directory; I can't figure out how to tell distutils to install it in the right place. It seems like I want a sort of build_data/install_data pair of commands, that allows creation and installation of *generated* data files. Any hints? Mark _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
