Prefered install method?

[Tina I]

Another noob question:
I have written my first linux application that might actually be of
interest to others. Just for fun I also wrote an install script that put
the files in the common directories for my distro (Debian). That is in
/usr/local/. (This particular program can be run directly from the
user's /home but as a learning experience I want to do it the 'coorect' way)

Now, I don't know if that is the way to do it with python applications.
I also don't know if a custom install script is the norm. I have seen
some use of makefiles and tried to find something about it but the
manual for GNUMake really assume you are familiar with/ using C which
I'm not. I have googled a lot for this but can't really find anything
aimed for someone just learning programming with Python.

So my question is; What is the preferred/ common way to install a python
application so it's not really distro specific? And are there any good
resources on this on the web?

Thanks
Tina

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Friday 26/1/2007 04:27, Tina I wrote:

>So my question is; What is the preferred/ common way to install a python
application so it's not really distro specific? And are there any good
resources on this on the web?

distutils, included in the standard Python library. You surely have
the docs installed, anyway you can read it online at
http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html

For the simplest case (your app only contains python modules) just
write a setup.py file on the top directory of you application:

from distutils.core import setup
setup(name='app name',
version='1.0',
py_modules=['foo', 'bar'],
)

and execute: python setup.py sdist
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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Tina I schrieb:

Another noob question:
I have written my first linux application that might actually be of
interest to others. Just for fun I also wrote an install script that put
the files in the common directories for my distro (Debian). That is in
/usr/local/. (This particular program can be run directly from the
user's /home but as a learning experience I want to do it the 'coorect'
way)

Now, I don't know if that is the way to do it with python applications.
I also don't know if a custom install script is the norm. I have seen
some use of makefiles and tried to find something about it but the
manual for GNUMake really assume you are familiar with/ using C which
I'm not. I have googled a lot for this but can't really find anything
aimed for someone just learning programming with Python.

So my question is; What is the preferred/ common way to install a python
application so it's not really distro specific? And are there any good
resources on this on the web?

These days, it's setuptools. Google for it. It will let you distribute
your application in a convenient way as so-called EGG (basically a
ZIP-file), additionally you will get support for installing scripts in
/usr/bin or wherever you like, and you have versioning support.

If you plan to release the app publically, it will also handle the
upload to the PyPI, the python package index - also known(?) as cheeseshop.

Diez

[Tina I]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

These days, it's setuptools. Google for it. It will let you distribute
your application in a convenient way as so-called EGG (basically a
ZIP-file), additionally you will get support for installing scripts in
/usr/bin or wherever you like, and you have versioning support.

If you plan to release the app publically, it will also handle the
upload to the PyPI, the python package index - also known(?) as cheeseshop.

Diez

Great! Obviously exactly what I'm looking for. I already had it
installed even, and it seem to be quite well documented and noob friendly.

Thanks :)
Tina