I've just been discovering the beauties of setuptools - for someone like me, developing a package with many dependencies, it could be just the tonic! And very easy to get going too - thnks!
One question though - my package carries a post-install script to create a few shortcuts on windows systems. Creating an egg and then easy_installing it copies a setuptools version of the script to the scripts folder but it doesn't run at the end of install (or maybe it tries to and fails in some hidden way). The script does use the special functions from distutils [like get_special_folder_path(csidl_string)] and maybe these aren't available to setuptools? Am I missing something? Should it run? Or is it a simple limitation of eggs that they can't do this? The post-install script is attached below. thanks Jon http://www.psychopy.org/ #-------------------------------------- ##----------------------------- ##Windows post install (shortcuts etc...) ##----------------------------- import sys, os def install(): print "Adding shortcuts to >>Start>Programs>PsychoPy" progsFolder= get_special_folder_path("CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS") sitePackages = os.path.join(sys.prefix , 'lib','site-packages') #Psychopy Programs folder psychopyShortcuts = os.path.join(progsFolder, 'PsychoPy') if not os.path.isdir(psychopyShortcuts): os.mkdir(psychopyShortcuts) directory_created(psychopyShortcuts) #monitor center monitorCenterLink=os.path.join(psychopyShortcuts, "MonitorCenter.lnk") if os.path.isfile(monitorCenterLink): os.remove(monitorCenterLink)#we want to make a new one create_shortcut(os.path.join(sitePackages,'monitors','MonitorCenter.py'), 'PsychoPy Monitor Center', monitorCenterLink) file_created(monitorCenterLink) #homepage homePageLink = os.path.join(psychopyShortcuts, "PsychoPyHome.lnk") if os.path.isfile(homePageLink): os.remove(homePageLink)#we want to make a new one create_shortcut(r"http://www.psychopy.org";, 'PsychoPy HomePage', homePageLink) file_created(homePageLink) print "All done. Enjoy!" if len(sys.argv) > 1: if sys.argv[1] == '-install': install() else: print "Script was called with option %s" % sys.argv[1] This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
