Howdy all, How can I specify to Distutils (Setuptools) that module ‘foo’ needs to be available for use by ‘setup.py’, but should not be installed with the binary distribution?
In the ‘python-daemon’ distribution, I have refactored a bunch of functionality to a separate top-level module (‘version’). That module is required to perform Setuptools actions – the ‘egg_info.writers’ entry point specifically – but is not needed at all by the resulting installation and should not be installed. So it's not clear how to specify this dependency. I have a ‘packages=find_packages(exclude=["test"])’ specification; but that module isn't a package and so should not (?) be collected. I have the file included in ‘MANIFEST.in’; but that only specifies what to include in the source distribution, and should not add any files to the binary. As it stands (‘python-daemon’ [0] version 2.0.3), the ‘version.py’ file is correctly included in the source distribution, correctly used by the ‘egg_info.writers’ entry point; but then ends up incorrectly installed to the run-time packages library. This causes problems for subsequent import of unrelated modules that happen to share the same name. How can I specify to Setuptools that the file is needed in the source distribution, is needed by the entry points for Setuptools, but should not be installed along with the binary distribution? [0] <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>; version 2.0.3 at <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/2.0.3>. -- \ “The entertainment industry calls DRM "security" software, | `\ because it makes them secure from their customers.” —Cory | _o__) Doctorow, 2014-02-05 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
