On Saturday, December 22, 2012, Andrew In wrote: > Hello. > > We have an application written in Python that uses automake. We have all > our source code in a directory called src/programname. We also have a small > launcher called src/programname.py.in which is transformed into > src/programname.py during "compilation." With this setup the program is > installed in lib and the launcher in bin. > > The problem is that the launcher is installed as programname.py. We would > like to install it as just programname. > > We can't rename the launcher in the source tree because then the name will > clash with the name of the Python package. So we're asking if there's a way > to remove the .py suffix from the launcher during the installation phase? > > We are busy reading the documentation, but are somewhat stuck on this one. > We have looked at a few other Python projects with similar setup and they > all seam to get around it by using different names for the package and for > the launcher. We would like to avoid that if possible. > > Andrew >
I just realized that I can make the generated launcher go into a separate directory before install, so no name clash. That will work with uninstall too. Sorry about the first mail being sent twice. Andrew
