On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:22 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 06:30 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote: > >> Argh :( Can you describe some other way of customizing the install command >> that works better with setuptools? >> > > That depends on what you're trying to do; but probably it will involve > subclassing the install command rather than simply invoking it. > > What are you trying to customize, anyway? There really aren't many > user-serviceable parts inside; you'd probably be better off customizing > subcommands (like install_lib or some of the build_* commands). > I don't have the project in front of me right now, but what I needed to do was to install something non-Python. That is, if the package gets installed under <prefix>/lib, the extra data gets installed under <prefix>/data. The data is part of the project, but not part of the Python package(s). Arve
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