Hey folks.
I'm using pyglet.resource for the first time. Forgive my idiocy. Project
layout:
./
|-tanks\
| |-source code goes here
|-data\
| |-image files go here
|-setup.py
|-run_game.py
in my source, I have:
pyglet.resource.path = ['data']
pyglet.resource.reindex()
image = pyglet.resource.texture(name + '.png')
and this works fine.
My problem is that the 'run_game.py' I have shown above doesn't actually
exist. I have no executable script. Instead I use setup.py's
"entry_points" to specify that the entry point to my application is my
"main" function, which resides within the source code directory.
Calling "python setup.py install" or "python setup.py develop" generates
an executable script
on the PATH which calls my main function. (this is standard setuptools
functionality, not my own crazy invention)
When I do this, pyglet.resource is unable to find my image files,
because it now thinks my top-level executable script is in my
virtualenv's 'bin' directory.
I could work around this by specifying an absolute pyglet.resource.path,
derived from __file__. But this will break when I package my
application up and distribute the data files using setup.py's
"data_files". The install location of my data doesn't have a
well-defined location relative to __file__ - I have to use
"pkg_resources" to find it. Based on a quick grep, I don't *think*
pyglet.resource is doing that. ( But the docs say "The resource module
also behaves as expected when applications are bundled using py2exe or
py2app.", so I'm probably wrong.)
I guess the alternative is I could move my data files into my source
code (yuck), so that I can distribute them using setup.py's
'package_data', and use pyglet.resource.path = ["@data"]?
Or I could stop using setup.py's "entry_points" and create an actual
top-level "run_game.py" script. But I thought "entry_points" was "the
right way to do it" for distributing python application packages?
I'm sure I can muddle through, but thought I'd air my confusion on the
offchance someone could point out how I've managed to misunderstand
more-or-less everything.
Feel free to lampoon me for comedy effect if it makes responding more fun.
Cheers!
Jonathan
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