Anastasios Hatzis ah at hatzis.de
Wed Feb 7 15:03:31 EST 2007

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Hello

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> 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).
> 

Thank you for this hint. I think it will help.

Regards,
Anastasios

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