[reportlab-users] Anyone understand distutils

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:38:10PM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> 
> Actually we are working on distutils support right now.
> Is there anyone here who really understands it?

Not me.

> Question 1.  The docs assume that setup.py lives
> one directory above what you want to ship.  We made
> 'reportlab' the top directory in our CVS tree.
> Are we irreparably stuffed or can one make a setup.py
> whose home is "inside the package"?

I use distutils in a simple manner for some small projects
and setup.py is in the main directory of the project, so for
different projects I've got different setup.py

i.e. I've got the license, README, and setup.py in the 
same directory, but they are also shipped in the tarball
made when running : python setup.py sdist

Download any python program from my website for *very simple* 
samples.

hth

Jerome Alet