On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:53 PM, John Nagle wrote:
Most of the documentation for "setup.py" assumes you're packaging a
library module. (Ref: "http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html
")
How do you properly package an application? What happens
on "setup.py install"? Where does the application get installed?
Where does
the main program go?
If I package and build my app, it packages properly, and
unpacks and builds into
Messager1.0/build/lib
which is appropriate for a library, but not an application.
Here's the setup file.
distutils.core.setup(
name='Messager',
description="Baudot Teletype RSS and SMS program",
version='1.0',
author="John Nagle",
author_email="na...@animats.com",
packages=['messager'],
requires=['pyserial', 'feedparser']
)
Hi John,
I'm not sure what part you find unpalatable other than "lib" being in
the pathname. I recently wrote a setup.py for an app called Analysis.
Under OS X, Linux and Windows it installs into the site-packages
directory so I can run it like so:
python C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\analysis\main.py
or:
python /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/analysis/main.py
Now, packaging an application according to the expectations of the
platform to provide a double-clickable icon will require something
like py2exe or py2app. distutils doesn't provide a facility for that.
DOes that give you an idea about what you were asking?
bye
Philip
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