python setup.py configuration to install files in custom directories
configuration, installation, python, setup.py
Solution
The scripts are handled by use of the `scripts` parameter to the setup function. For libexec you can treat them as data files and use a data options.
setup(...
scripts=glob("bin/*"),
data_files=[(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'libexec', 'mypackage'), glob("libexec/*"))],
...
)
I'm not sure how that would work with a `--prefix` option, I've never tried that.
Problem
I want to create a setup.py which would install my files into custom directories. I have a certain prefix, where I would like to get the following result: ``` /my/prefix/ bin/ script.sh libexec/ one.py two.py ... lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ package/... ``` My initial project is following: ``` / script.sh one.py two.py ... setup.py package/... __init__.py ... ``` What would be the best way to achieve that? I would like to be able to install it later with something like: ``` python setup.py install --prefix=/my/prefix ``` I can get "package" nicely installed in the correct directory as `lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages` under `--prefix` is the default location. But is there a clean way to get `script.sh` into "bin" and other python files into "libexec"? The only way I see to achieve that would be to manually copy those files in my `setup.py` script. Maybe there is a cleaner and more standard way to do that?