It will exist only as a legacy thing, and as setuptools build system configuration. PEP-517 and PEP-518 defines what pip will support going forward.
On Sun, May 26, 2019, 15:25 Stuart Axon via Distutils-SIG < distutils-sig@python.org> wrote: > I'm making a python package for something python Gedit/Pluma/Xed plugin. > > Like other lots of other packages that use Gtk, I use glib-compile-schemas > [1] at install time. > > I do this by using a custom setup.py > - similar to this file this from flux: > https://github.com/xflux-gui/fluxgui/blob/master/setup.py#L81 > (other app, like Meld to something similar) > > > It looks like there are a lot of changes happening to setuptools, will > this continue to work or will it break one day ? > > > This isn't the only file I'd like to generate at install time, but might > be the hardest to work around if I can't. > > > The other custom action I'm going looking at is setting `--install-lib` to > the editors plugin directory (this varies depending on: Operating system > and is the user root ?) > > > I'm using use pip for this, as the install story for most python plugins > for these editors is nonexistant - people have to copy the files to some > place manually, and instructions usually miss out Windows and OSX. > > > [1] glib-compile-schemas takes an XML file and generates a binary GVariant > file. > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/EWR4XLHRVMXH5ZO776UNL5S4POIXJMUT/ >
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