Benjamin Niemann pink at odahoda.de
Wed Feb 7 13:43:57 EST 2007

• Previous message (by thread): Group Membership in Active Directory Query
• Next message (by thread): distutils: renaming setup.py ok?
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

Hello,

Anastasios Hatzis wrote:

> I want to distribute Python site-packages. Is it okay to use other setup
> file names than setup.py, which is mentioned in any place I read in the
> doc?
> 
> E.g., setupMySDK.py, setupMyLib.py
> 
> It seems that it works with distutils at least - but probably doing so
> has side-effects with other tools which may expect exactly "setup.py" as
> file name.

I'd say, it's mostly the user who is expecting "setup.py" as the filename.

Perhaps 'setup.py --install-sdk' and 'setup.py --install-lib' would be more
approriate (which can be done with distutils).

HTH

-- 
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

---

• Previous message (by thread): Group Membership in Active Directory Query
• Next message (by thread): distutils: renaming setup.py ok?
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

More information about the Python-list mailing list