>> Can my setup.py support the >> installation of the following files, or should they be included in >> debian/fedora packages instead? >> 1. few examples files? >> 2. static html documentation files? >> 3. man pages for the console scripts? > > The distutils doesn't really support installing such things well; you can > certainly include them in your *source* distribution, though. > > >> Also, I upload a source distribution (sdist) to the Python Package Index >> 4. should I use an *egg* instead? > > No, it's not necessary. Eggs are mainly useful as a drop-in-and-use format > for application plugins (such as extensions to Chandler, Trac, and other > plugin-enabled application environments), and distributing precompiled C > extensions on certain platforms. easy_install and pip can both operate just > fine on source distributions, and if your code is only pure Python, you > don't need to distribute binaries.
Thank you, I got it. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
