Re: [matplotlib-devel] MPL w/package_data

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

Nadezhda Dencheva wrote:
> What's wrong with Pete Shinners's smart_istall_data?
> I am thinking of using it in all our packages, so
> if someone knows of any drawbacks I'd like to hear
> about this.
> 
> I've spent hours trying to construct a distutils hack that
> will force bdist_wininst to package data correctly and this
> one just works, (that's why I'm so impressed).

It seems you guys have found a solution already, but just in case it's of any 
use (now or later), you may want to glance at

http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/browser/ipython/trunk/setupext

This little snippet of code was contributed to ipython long ago, to assist 
with data packaging (compatible with python 2.2, including bdist_rpm and 
bdist_wininst).

Here's the setup.py that uses it:

http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/browser/ipython/trunk/setup.py

all you do is pass to setup the line

       cmdclass         = {'install_data': install_data_ext},

and the files listed as data_files get handled by it.

If it's of any use, feel free to grab it.

Cheers,

f