Dear Otto: The only way that I could tell you about a project that kind of does what you are looking for is already done somewhat in Distutils2-1.0a4 tarball...
You may get the tarball from here, and look at its setup.py and setup.cfg files... http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2 Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Otto Maddox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Python project which follows a client-server architecture. It > is natural to develop it as two different projects and in two different > source distributions, myproject-server.tar.gz and > myproject-client.tar.gz. > > Neither package depends on the other, but because they are part of a > larger, overarching project, I want install each of them so that they > appear as subpackages (myproject.server and myproject.client) under a > common superpackage (myproject). I am looking for the cleanest and most > correct way to do this using distutils and setup.py, so that I can end > up with a structure like this: > > site-packages/myproject > site-packages/myproject/__init__.py > > site-packages/myproject/server/__init__.py > site-packages/myproject/server/file1.py > site-packages/myproject/server/file2.py > > site-packages/myproject/client/__init__.py > site-packages/myproject/client/file3.py > site-packages/myproject/client/file4.py > > and so that any of the following commands (and their standard > variations) work: > > import myproject > import myproject.server > import myproject.client > > Is there a way to write distutils/setup.py to do this? > > I have tried something like packages = ["myproject", "myproject.client"] > in the client's setup.py and packages = ["myproject", > "myproject.server"] in the server's setup.py. This kind of works, but it > feels wrong because the second package which gets installed will > overwrite files from the first -- for example, there is no clean way to > install myproject/__init__.py. > > I can't imagine that I'm the first person to want to address this use > case. What would be the best way of doing this? > > Finally, does anybody have any examples of other projects which do a > similar thing? Thanks. > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey
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