WIll custom setup.py with (set library-prefix have post install actions) continue to be supported ?

Stuart Axon via Distutils-SIG <[email protected]>
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I'm making a python package for something python Gedit/Pluma/Xed plugin.

Like other lots of other packages that use Gtk, I use glib-compile-schemas [1] at install time.
I do this by using a custom setup.py- similar to this file this from flux:
 https://github.com/xflux-gui/fluxgui/blob/master/setup.py#L81(other app, like Meld to something similar)


It looks like there are a lot of changes happening to setuptools, will this continue to work or will it break one day ?

This isn't the only file I'd like to generate at install time, but might be the hardest to work around if I can't.


The other custom action I'm going looking at is setting `--install-lib` to the editors plugin directory (this varies depending on:  Operating system and is the user root ?)

I'm using use pip for this, as the install story for most python plugins for these editors is nonexistant - people have to copy the files to some place manually, and instructions usually miss out Windows and OSX.


[1] glib-compile-schemas takes an XML file and generates a binary GVariant file.

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