Currently I am use an import in my setup script to build a file I need during
the install. Specifically:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import distribute_setup
distribute_setup.use_setuptools()
from setuptools import setup
import manpage # simply importing manpage creates the ec.1 as a side effect
setup(
name='ec',
version='1.0',
...,
data_files=[('man/man1', ['ec.1'])],
...
)
However, I require that docutils be installed in advance otherwise the import
will fail. To resolve this, I would like to use setup_requires='docutils>0.7'.
For this to be effective, I will have to arrange things so that the import
occurs during the evaluation of setup(). Is that possible?
I have created an ugly hack that works by calling setup() twice ...
setup(
name='ec',
version='1.0',
...,
setup_requires='docutils >= 0.7',
...)
import manpage # simply importing manpage creates the ec.1 as a side effect
setup(
name='ec',
version='1.0',
...,
data_files=[('man/man1', ['ec.1'])],
...)
But I cannot help but believe there must be a better way.
Is there some way add a hook to setup to get it to do the import for me after
setup_requires has been processed?
If not, is there some way to install docutils if needed before I call setup()?
-Ken
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