ok - john, gabriel, i've now removed setuptools, which is the area that's problematic for many people. however.... there's a feature of setuptools which _is_ useful:
- entry_points = {'console_scripts':[ - 'pyjsbuild=pyjs.build:main', - 'pyjscompile=pyjs:main', - ]}, whoops - those are now gone. i have a command, bootstrap.py, which replicates that exact functionality: it creates a customised pyjsbuild which can go in /usr/ bin or /usr/local/bin and it will add the library locations to sys.path and also as a -D option to the pyjs main() function - it's a little obscure, but works out fine. e.g. if you specify no arguments, this gets auto-generated, in ./bin/ pyjsbuild : #!/usr/bin/python pth = '/home/lkcl/src/sf.pyjamas/svn-pyjamas/pyjamas' import os import sys sys.path[0:0] = [ pth, ] import pyjs, sys pyjs.path += [os.path.join(pth, 'library'), os.path.join(pth, 'library', 'builtins'), os.path.join(pth, 'addons'), ] sys.argv.extend(['-D', pth]) import pyjs.build if __name__ == '__main__': pyjs.build.main() if you specify "python bootstrap.py /usr/share/pyjamas /tmp" you get, in /tmp/bin/pyjsbuild: #!/usr/bin/python pth = '/usr/share/python' import os import sys sys.path[0:0] = [ pth, ] import pyjs, sys pyjs.path += [os.path.join(pth, 'library'), os.path.join(pth, 'library', 'builtins'), os.path.join(pth, 'addons'), ] sys.argv.extend(['-D', pth]) import pyjs.build if __name__ == '__main__': pyjs.build.main() so, would you (or anyone else) happen to know how i can get setup.py to run bootstrap.py to create these two scripts, in a way that's compatible with the setuptools "entry_points" thing? i.e. taking the option of "--install-data" as the first argument to bootstrap.py and the option of "--prefix" as the second argument. i envisage it to be something like: from bootstrap import create_commands if distutils.XXXXX.cmd == "build": create_commands(distutils.XXXXXX.install_data_path, distutils.XXXXXX.prefix) but it all looks a bit hair-raising, if you ask me. i'm not often on wobbly ground when it comes to python, but this is pretty specific stuff that has to be got right across multiple platforms. tia, l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list