Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> writes: > I've looked through the manual but I can't find any hooks in distutils > for generating files at install time other than extension modules and > .pyc files. Should I just run the script from somewhere in my setup.py > before calling distutils' setup function?
Indirectly related: Ian Bicking's article on using Python's ‘setup.py’ as a ‘Makefile’ replacement: <URL:http://blog.ianbicking.org/pythons-makefile.html> If one is writing a ‘setup.py’ anyway, I think it makes sense to use that as the build program for the whole project if possible. Good hunting! -- \ “I have an answering machine in my car. It says, ‘I'm home now. | `\ But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.’” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list