Hi guys, I am new to distutils and trying to create a setup.py for a project, but i am having a problem.
My project has this directory layout: / /AUTHORS /README /myproject (binary) /MyProject /MyProject/modules/ /MyProject/modules/first.py /MyProject/modules/__init__.py /MyProject/output/ /MyProject/output/second.py /MyProject/output/__init__.py /doc/manpage.1 Here's the setup.py that i did: from distutils.core import setup DATAFILES = [('/usr/share/man/man1', ['doc/manpage.1']), ('/usr/share/doc/myproject',['AUTHORS','COPYING','README','TODO'])] setup(name='MyProject', version='0.1', license='GPL2', description='Trying distutils, author=['Hugo Doria'], package_dir={'modules':MyProject/modules', 'output':'MyProject/output'}, packages=['modules', 'output'], scripts=['myproject'], data_files=DATAFILES) When i run setup.py install it does works. But i get this on my system: /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/modules /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/output /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/MyProject It's a bit strange, is not? Shouldn't it be something like: /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/MyProject /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/MyProject/output/ /usr//lib/python2.6/site-packages/MyProject/modules/ What am i doing wrong? Thanks. -- Hugo _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig