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:
>
On 5 February 2016 at 16:39, AltSheets Dev
wrote:
> Would it be a valid feature request to make those two useful options
> (pre-install-script/install-script) available platform-independent?
It's something that has been discussed under the "Metadata 2.0"
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:39 AM, AltSheets Dev <
altsheets+mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > consider adding some code to the installer itself
> Wouldn't it be great if setuptools.setup provided that option, and
> OS-independent?
>
well, no. setuptools is a bit of an (ugly?) amalgamation of
Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
On the other hand, I don't think there's a post-install in the usual way
of installing things on the Mac. It's just a folder that is dragged into
another folder (not a Mac user myself, so I could be wrong, there could
be some side effects on this action).
A
On 3 February 2016 at 19:04, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
wrote:
> Unless, of course, you only upload the source package to PyPI. But in this
> case your setup.py will be run on every machine only as a side effect of the
> fact that your package would have to be built every time
Resending to list...
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From: Jeremy Kloth
Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Distutils] setup('postinstall'='my.py')
To: AltSheets Dev
It appears that you are using bdist_wininst to
Re-sending to the list as well:
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From: Leonardo Rochael Almeida
Date: 3 February 2016 at 16:23
Subject: Re: [Distutils] setup('postinstall'='my.py')
To: Alt Sheets
Hi,
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On 3 February 2016 at 14:45, Alt