Distutils: relative paths

[Frans Englich]

Hello,

I have trouble installing a data directory which is not a child of my package
directory in the source directory.

My source directory looks like this:

../setup.py
schemas/*.xsd
foo/*.py

And when it's installed, it should look like:

site-packages/foo/*.py
site-packages/foo/schemas/*.xsd

In other words, schemas, from being a sibling of foo, became a child of foo.

Now, how is this expressed in the setup.py?

I tried this:

setup( name="Foo",
packages=["foo"],
package_data={ "foo": ["../schemas/*.xsd"] },
package_dir={ "foo": "foo"},
[...]

but it resulted in schemas being a package, not child of foo(!).

I've read the relevant page in the reference manual,
http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/node11.html

but I can't find the trick. Any ideas?
Cheers,

Frans

[George Sakkis]

"Frans Englich" <fr***********@telia.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have trouble installing a data directory which is not a child of my package
directory in the source directory.

My source directory looks like this:

./setup.py
schemas/*.xsd
foo/*.py

And when it's installed, it should look like:

site-packages/foo/*.py
site-packages/foo/schemas/*.xsd

In other words, schemas, from being a sibling of foo, became a child of foo.

Now, how is this expressed in the setup.py?

I tried this:

setup( name="Foo",
packages=["foo"],
package_data={ "foo": ["../schemas/*.xsd"] },
package_dir={ "foo": "foo"},
[...]

but it resulted in schemas being a package, not child of foo(!).

I've read the relevant page in the reference manual,
http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/node11.html

but I can't find the trick. Any ideas?
Cheers,

Frans

If I interpret it correctly, "the files are expected to be part of the package in the source
directories" means that you cannot specify a sibling directory as package data, so the easiest way
is to make "schemas" child of foo. If this is not possible, you may check the 'data_files' option
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/node12.html).

George