Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> Eric S. Johansson wrote: >>> is there anyway I can, in a setup.py file, set and internal equivalent >>> to the '--install-scripts' commandline option? >> Please don't. Hard-coding that interferes with the user's decision of where >> things should go. Only the user should be making that decision, not the >> package >> author. > > I understand the concern and if I was making a general purpose > package, it would be appropriate to not set the path. But these are > internal commands that shouldn't pollute /usr/bin for a variety of > reasons (almost all daemons, friends of daemons and cgi programs).
Okay, if it's just for internal use, then I certainly have no objection. Use a setup.cfg file: http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html Specifically, use something like the following section: [install] install_scripts=/path/to/scripts/directory -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
