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

It will exist only as a legacy thing, and as setuptools build system
configuration. PEP-517 and PEP-518 defines what pip will support going
forward.

On Sun, May 26, 2019, 15:25 Stuart Axon via Distutils-SIG <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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