Not sure if it is possible to do this - I know distutils has "force" option that can be turned on/off for install_data, but is it possible to do something somewhat complicated - have a data file named YYY, need to copy it to share/script/YYY only if share/script/YYY does not already exist, otherwise, need to copy YYY to share/script/YYY.new
Does anyone have any hints on how to go about doing this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list