It sure does! Thanks. For great sites go to: http://falcon3166.tripod.com For great products go to: http://zoffee.tripod.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Yoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tutor mailing list" <tutor@python.org> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Do I have to include certain items in the setup.py file?
> > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Nathan Pinno wrote: > >> It sure does. Thanks Danny. One final question: Is it possible to write >> one setup.py and use it for multiple Python programs? > > Just to make sure, we are talking about the Distutils setup.py that's used > to build distributions of Python applications, right? > > It might not be so useful to clone setup.py, since we'd probably want to > make changes for each program, just because we'd probably label our > programs with different names just to keep ourselves from getting > confused. > > That is, technically, it's possible to call all our programs some generic > name like "program.py", and to keep all our programs in separate > subdirectories. And in that way, the same 'setup.py' could work on > different applications. But still, I don't see this being done very often > because people often like to use descriptive --- and varying --- names for > their programs. > > In my own practice, I usually just write a setup.py from scratch (or copy > a template), and customize it to the particular application that I'm > packaging up. Does this make sense? > > > Best of wishes! > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
