Re: [Pyode-user] Pyode binary distribution

[Ethan Glasser-C. <gl...@cs...>]

al...@ci... wrote:
> I have tried to create a binary Win32 installer for latest PyODE snapshot.
> I am sure Kadir and others will find it useful.

This is awesome, thanks!

I have uploaded this, as well as tarballs taken from today's git, to the
files section of the sourceforge project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyode/files/

I've elected to use a snapshot-ymd system, since at present the project
doesn't have "features" that are added in any regular fashion.

I also updated the project website with the git URL and links to the
most current files.

> Since I'm a beginner in creating Python packages, I have two small issues:
> 
> 1. The installer copies "ode.dll" to c:\python25. Is this a problem?
> I believe it should be copied into "site-packages" instead, but I did not know
> how to
> specify this in setup.py.

No idea here, sorry..

> 2. The examples are copied into c:\python25\pyode-examples. Is there a better
> choice?

I wouldn't include them at all, frankly.

> 3. When installing the binary package to a fresh Python directory, tutorials 1
> and 3
> work fine; the others need pygame and maybe cgkit. Is there a way to specify
> these dependencies in the binary installer?

I think it's fine to leave these out -- not all people who use ODE are
going to want to use it with Pygame.

> I have added examples and ode.dll as "data_files" in setup.py. I would also like to
> see the setup.py which created the releases from pyode.sourceforge.net (1.2.0).

I would guess that the setup.py in the source tree is the one they used,
but I have no idea.

Ethan