[Sugar-devel] Why setup.py?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 28.04.2009, at 19:42, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>
> On 28.04.2009, at 17:34, Luke Faraone wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:30, Bert Freudenberg  
>> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> That would make sense. In fact, I previously made a mkDist.py script
>> (in the etoys repo) that would call the bundle builder to create an  
>> xo
>> bundle. It sets the dist_dir variable in the Config object. How would
>> I set the dist_dir when using setup.py?
>>
>> The *exact* same way you'd do it in your other script. setup.py is  
>> just a well-known name for the file that "sets up" a package; it's  
>> the equivalent of a Makefile from the C++ world.
>
>
> Err, if I change the semantics of setup.py that would break it for  
> other users. I would have to pass it as a command line option, but  
> that apparently is not supported.
>
> - Bert -


*bump*

- Bert -


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