Met Problem with Distutils

[steven]

if i want a main executable py script installed on the /usr/local/bin,
what do i do? i tried the data_files options in the setup.py, but
nothing happened, no the expected file appeared in the resulted tarbar.

below is the setup.py:

setup(name='foopkg',

version='1.0',

author="Steven Woody",

author_email="st****@lczmsoft.com",

url="http://a.b.c",

packages=['foopkg'],

scripts=['scripts/*.py'],

data_files=[('/usr/local/bin', ['scripts/myprj.py'])]

)
can anyone tell me what is wrong?

thanks in advance!

-
narke

[Robert Kern]

st****@lczmsoft.com wrote:

if i want a main executable py script installed on the /usr/local/bin,
what do i do? i tried the data_files options in the setup.py, but
nothing happened, no the expected file appeared in the resulted tarbar.

Generally speaking, you, the author, shouldn't dictate to the user
exactly where to install stuff to. There are reasons to break this rule,
but installing exectuable scripts is too common to be one of them.

The way for the user to install scripts to the location of their choice
is given here:

http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html

In short, use the --install-scripts command-line option, or the
setup.cfg/.pydistutils.cfg snippet:

[install]
install_scripts=...

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