Thomas Heller wrote:
> Paul Pogonyshev schrieb:
> > Thomas Heller wrote:
> >> Paul Pogonyshev schrieb:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Distutils create dynamic library for a C extension in `build/...'
> >> > directory. This makes it impossible to run program without
> >> > installing it, which I find very important for developing. Ideally,
> >> > process should look like this:
> >> > [...]
> >>
> >> What I do is to create a loader module named <extension>.py that
> >> 'replaces' itself with the real extension, loading it via imp
> >> from the platform specific build directory that distutils creates.
> >
> > This looks clever. However, how do you make sure the module doesn't
> > get itself installed? I.e. I'd not want this hack make it into the
> > installed copy, while it is perfectly OK for quick in-place builds
> > and tests.
>
> I'm not sure this trick works for every case, but it works for the ctypes
> separate distribution.
>
> The point is that ctypes is a package, and the ctypes package uses the
> _ctypes.pyd/so and _ctypes_test.pyd/.so extension modules. The extension
> modules are not inside the package, they are top-level modules. Here
> is the source layout in the SVN repository:
>
> ./setup.py
> ./_ctypes.py # the loader module
> ./_ctypes_test.py # the other loader module
> ./ctypes/__init__.py # the ctypes package
> ./ctypes/... # other parts of the package
>
> Now, when you call 'setup.py build_ext', the extension modules
> are built and put into this directory:
>
> ./build/lib.win32-2.4/_ctypes.pyd
> ./build/lib.win32-2.4/_ctypes_test.pyd
>
> The setup script contains these lines:
>
> setup(...,
> extensions = [Extension(_ctypes, ...), Extension(_ctypes_test, ...)],
> packages = ["ctypes", "ctypes.test", "ctypes.macholib"],
> )
>
> so the loader script will not be included in the distributions.
>
> I am not sure if this recipe can be extended to support extensions
> that are inside packages; but for now I find it nicer than the setuptools
> 'develop' approach.
>
> Thomas
Hm, looks too complicated. Thanks anyway.
I ended up with custom build_ext command:
from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
class build_ext (_build_ext):
def build_extension (self, extension):
_build_ext.build_extension (self, extension)
if not self.inplace and os.name == 'posix':
filename = self.get_ext_filename (extension.name)
try:
os.remove (filename)
except:
# Ignore all errors.
pass
try:
os.symlink (os.path.join (os.pardir, self.build_lib, filename),
os.path.join ('notify', os.path.basename
(filename)))
except:
# Ignore all errors.
pass
Maybe I should copy on non-posix systems.
Paul
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