Thanks a lot!
I could get that working!
See setup.py lines 13 and 69 in
https://github.com/altsheets/coinquery/blob/f1759a6dd5cd891f493da343c52e8184b45fc926/setup.py
BUT
my custom install routines are called
when the windows installer binary is CREATED,
not when it is UNPACKED on the target
Hi,
The thing about setup.py is that it only runs at "build time".
However, it looks like you want to generate a unique id at every install.
Since you mentioned a windows installer, consider adding some code to the
installer itself so that it calls an entry point in your library to
generate
One very simple technique used by some projects like numpy is just to have
``setup.py`` write a file into the source tree before calling setup().
example: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py#L338-L339
-Robert
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:48 PM, AltSheets Dev <
Hello everyone on distutils-sig@,
this is a first timer, please be gentle to me *g*
I am just starting with setuptools,
and I just cannot get my idea working:
At install time,
I'd like to generate a file with a random UID,
which will later always be the same.
I had hoped for a
