Thank you Robert, Leonardo, Jeremy, Paul, Greg!
> One very simple technique used by some projects like
> numpy is just to have ``setup.py`` write a file into the
> source tree before calling setup(). example:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py#L338-L339
Done that now. But:
>
cgi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One very simple technique used by some projects like numpy is just to have
> ``setup.py`` write a file into the source tree before calling setup().
>
> example: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py#L338-L339
>
> -Robert
>
> On Tue, Feb 2,
Hello everyone on distutils-sig@,
this is a first timer, please be gentle to me *g*
I am just starting with setuptools,
and I just cannot get my idea working:
At install time,
I'd like to generate a file with a random UID,
which will later always be the same.
I had hoped for a
