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

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:24:08PM +0000, Stuart Axon via Distutils-SIG 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:
> [1]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.

For gtimelog I ended up calling glib-compile-schemas at runtime, prior
to `import gi`.  I'm also setting os.environ['GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR'] to
the directory where my schema file resides (inside the virtualenv's
site-packages, usually).

This allows me to support 'pip install gtinelog', as well as running
straight from a git checkout with no intermediate build step.

Marius Gedminas
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