> On Jan 17, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Howdy all, > > How can I specify to Distutils (Setuptools) that module ‘foo’ needs to > be available for use by ‘setup.py’, but should not be installed with the > binary distribution? > > In the ‘python-daemon’ distribution, I have refactored a bunch of > functionality to a separate top-level module (‘version’). That module is > required to perform Setuptools actions – the ‘egg_info.writers’ entry > point specifically – but is not needed at all by the resulting > installation and should not be installed. > > So it's not clear how to specify this dependency. I have a > ‘packages=find_packages(exclude=["test"])’ specification; but that > module isn't a package and so should not (?) be collected. I have the > file included in ‘MANIFEST.in’; but that only specifies what to include > in the source distribution, and should not add any files to the binary. > > As it stands (‘python-daemon’ [0] version 2.0.3), the ‘version.py’ file > is correctly included in the source distribution, correctly used by the > ‘egg_info.writers’ entry point; but then ends up incorrectly installed > to the run-time packages library. This causes problems for subsequent > import of unrelated modules that happen to share the same name. > > How can I specify to Setuptools that the file is needed in the source > distribution, is needed by the entry points for Setuptools, but should > not be installed along with the binary distribution? > > > [0] <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>; version 2.0.3 at > <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/2.0.3>. > > -- > \ “The entertainment industry calls DRM "security" software, | > `\ because it makes them secure from their customers.” —Cory | > _o__) Doctorow, 2014-02-05 | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
setup_requires? --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
