If you're lazy, you could distribute the server package to everyone
and just make sure that if someone tries to import it on python 2 then
they get a useful error.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, splitting client and server packages is on my to-do list. Was
> just hoping to keep Python2 users from shooting themselves in the foot
> with a server subpackage which wouldn't work.
>
> S
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> frankly, I'd give up n find_packages -- it's not that magic, it's just a
>> convenience function so you don't need to hand-specify them.
>>
>> But in this case, you're doing something weird, so I"d just be explicit.
>>
>> Though what I'd probably really do is make the client and server completely
>> separate packages. After all, you say your users only want the client side
>> anyway.
>>
>> and if the server depends on the client (which I"d hope it doesn't!) then
>> you can simply make it a dependency.
>>
>> -CHB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > If by "top/server tree" you mean that there are more subpackages under
>>> > top.server (not just a server.py file as your diagram shows), then you
>>> > need
>>> > to filter out all of those subpackages as well, e.g.:
>>> >
>>> > packages = setuptools.find_packages()
>>> > if sys.version_info.major < 3:
>>> > packages = [
>>> > pkg for pkg in packages
>>> > if pkg != "top.server" and not
>>> > pkg.startswith("top.server.")
>>> > ]
>>>
>>> Thanks, yes, there is another subpackage within top/server, but I
>>> eliminated it as well. I was simplifying for the email. The raw
>>> find_packages() output looks like this:
>>>
>>> ['tests', 'top', 'tests.python', 'top.client', 'top.server',
>>> 'top.server.db']
>>>
>>> I was excising the last two elements from the returned list, so the
>>> argument of the packages keyword looked like this:
>>>
>>> ['tests', 'top', 'tests.python', 'top.client']
>>>
>>> Does the presence of 'top' in the list imply everything under it will
>>> be copied (I do want 'top', as that's the top level package, not just
>>> a directory in my repo.)
>>>
>>> I'll keep messing with it.
>>>
>>> Skip
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>>
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