At 10:46 AM 8/13/2007 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>Given the component.xml in there, I'm pretty sure I need to add a
>>>zip_safe=True, but what else do I need to do to get setup.py to
>>>correctly build an egg and a source distro?
>>Short answer: move the package and any data files that should be
>>included to a mailinglogger/ subdirectory.
>
>What ends up in the root folder then? just the setup.py?
and anything else you want in the source distro, like the docs and
examples. I also usually throw my tests there, and don't distribute
them with the egg, but preferences vary.
>>Alternative answer: use package_dir={'mailinglogger':'.'} and
>>manually list the packages (since find_packages() doesn't support
>>package_dir).
>
>I actually tried this before I mailed here, it didn't work but I
>can't remember the exact reason. I think it may have been that it
>included the files as modules, but they weren't in a 'mailinglogger'
>package anymore...
I suspect that you changed package_dir but not packages. You have to
explicitly list the packages for that to work.
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