On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2012 7:47 AM, "Tim Cuthbertson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm curious, how would one create a new layout? (as in a --layout=deb >> alternative). I'd very much like to have a layout that doesn't include >> any version information in the path, which both "deb" and "unix" do. >> Ideally, output would look pretty much like: >> >> bin/ >> bin/script1 >> bin/script2 >> lib/ >> lib/some_c_ext.so >> lib/python/ >> lib/python/packagename/ >> lib/python/packagename/__init__.py >> lib/python/packagename/core.py > > Use "setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed > --install-lib=lib/python --install-scripts=bin"; add other options for any > other directories as needed.
Cheers, will look into it. Is there a canonical list of what possible directories, or should I just look at the --help output? Am I going to run into trouble where some projects have different options? For example, calling `python setup.py` could be implemented by distutils, setuptools, distribute, and god knows what else. I would like for the same options to work across all backends, since I'm building a lot of libraries without wanting to care too deeply about which build system they use. Is this doable, or would it potentially have to be crafted to each package? > You can configure these options in your .pydistutils.cfg so as to not have > to set them every time you create an installation. > >> Something simple, without the unnecessary layers of "usr", "local", >> "site-packages", "python2.7" etc. The purpose is to be put into a >> self-contained archive, so it's completely unnecessary to include such >> namespacing (it will never be mixed in with any other files). > > FWIW, you can use bdist_egg to create a similar archive, except that lib/ is > replaced by ./ and bin/ is replaced by EGG-INFO/scripts/. True, although I want a folder, not an archive. I could unpack it, but the less steps in a build script the better. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
